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| Frequency: | Rare |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Terrestrial herb up to 60 cm high, growing from a creeping rhizome. Stems erect, fleshy. Leaves 7-9, suberect to spreading, ovate, 3-3.6 cm long; petiole distinct, 2-2.5 cm long, broadening towards the sheathing base. Inflorescence up to 17 cm long, many-flowered on a glandular peduncle up to 23 cm long; Flower small, subglobose white-glandular on the outside of the straw-coloured, pink-tinged sepals; petals pale pinkish; lip saacate at the base with numerous papillae inside, ovate tongue-shape at the apex, pale green to whitish. |
| Type location: |
Madagascar |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | afzelii: after Adam Afzelius of Uppsala (1750-1837), Swedish botanist and pupil of Linnaeus. |
| Habitat: | In shade on forest floor. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1550 m (approx) |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Known only from Madagascar and Mozambique. |
| FZ divisions: | MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cribb, P.J. & Ormerod, P. (2001). Goodyera R. Br. (Orchidaceae): a new generic record for tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 56(2) Pages 501 - 502. |