Platycoryne trilobata Summerhayes (1958: 67)

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Platycoryne trilobata Summerhayes (1958: 67)

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This is the second species that was described on the basis of a specimen collected and illustrated by Faulkner. Summerhayes (1958) revised the genus Platycoryne and designated Faulkner 452, also from Alto Catumbela and collected in October 1940, as the type. It was the only specimen referred to in the protologue. Since then, it has been recorded from Angola and Zambia, but remains a rather inconspicuous and rare species only found in wet dambos. The species is illustrated as drawing number 5 in notebook 1, but there is no separate illustration in K.

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FIGURE 3. Drawings nos 4 and 5 from Notebook 1. No 4 (left) is Faulkner 450, Eulophia parvula. No. 5 (right) is Faulkner 452 the type specimen of Platycoryne trilobata. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.