FZ.24. Nervilia Comm. ex Gaudich.

Description of the genus

Terrestrial herbs with subspherical underground tubers. Leaf 1, produced after the flowers, elliptic, reniform or almost circular, often with silvery patterns above and purple coloration beneath. Inflorescence an erect raceme. Flowers resupinate; tepals apart from the lip similar, green or brownish-green. Lip 3-lobed to almost entire, sometimes papillate or pubescent with red markings and sometimes with a short spur. Column long. Pollinia 2.

Worldwide: 65 species in tropical and warm regions of the Old World.

Mozambique: 11 taxa.

Nervilia kotschyi var. kotschyi

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
adolphi Schltr. var. adolphi NImage
ballii G. Will.NDescription, Image
bicarinata (Blume) Schltr.MSDescription, Image
crociformis (Zoll. & Moritzi) Seidenf.NDescription, Image
kotschyi (Rchb. f.) Schltr. var. kotschyi N,Z,MSDescription, Image
kotschyi (Rchb. f.) Schltr. var. purpurata (Rchb. f. & Sond.) Börge Pett.N
pectinata P.J. CribbMS
petraea (Afzel. ex Sw.) Summerh.N
renschiana (Rchb. f.) Schltr.Z,T,MSImage
shirensis (Rolfe) Schltr.N,ZDescription, Image
stolziana Schltr.MSDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Nervilia:

Our websites:

Flora of Burundi: Nervilia
Flora of the DRC: Nervilia
Flora of Malawi: Nervilia
Flora of Rwanda: Nervilia
Flora of Zambia: Nervilia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Nervilia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Nervilia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Nervilia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Nervilia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Nervilia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Nervilia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Nervilia
JSTOR Plant Science: Nervilia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Nervilia
Plants of the World Online: Nervilia
Tropicos: Nervilia
Wikipedia: Nervilia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Nervilia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=424, retrieved 3 October 2024

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