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Culture & Care for the genus Pterygodium

Introduction to the genus





General cultivation techniques

Specific guidelines

In-vitro culture

Hybridisation notes

Pterygodium catholicum flowers the season after a bushfire. Flowering can be triggered by banana-treatment of the tubers 1)

Pollinators

References

Flowering calendar

Detailed data: Aggregated observation dates from the GBIF.org network.
A colored month means an observation in habitat or collection date of a herbarium specimen with flower or inflorescence. The number refers to the year of last observation or collection.

 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Location
Pterygodium acutifolium            1977Netherlands
Pterygodium alatum         1987   South Africa
Pterygodium caffrum         1987   South Africa
Pterygodium catholicum 1976       19761976  South Africa
Pterygodium connivens          1976  South Africa
Pterygodium cooperi  1988          South Africa
Pterygodium hallii         1987   South Africa
Pterygodium hastatum  1997          South Africa
Pterygodium platypetalum         1987   South Africa
Pterygodium vanderietae  1976          South Africa
Pterygodium volucris         19871977  South Africa

Species

World Checklist for Pterygodium. With the permission of the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Published on the Internet
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Pterygodium  -----   Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 217 (1800).
   Pterygodium acutifolium  -----   Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 366 (1838).
   Pterygodium alare  -----   (L.f.) Druce, Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1916: 642 (1917).
   Pterygodium alare  -----   T.Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 116 (1894).
   Pterygodium alatum  -----   (Thunb.) Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 218 (1800).
   Pterygodium atratum  -----   (L.) Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 218 (1800).
   Pterygodium bicolorum  -----   (Thunb.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 851 (1898).
   Pterygodium bifidum  -----   (Sond.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 865 (1898).
   Pterygodium biflorum  -----   Hochst. ex A.Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 303 (1850).
   Pterygodium caffrum  -----   (L.) Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 218 (1800).
   Pterygodium carnosum  -----   Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 367 (1839).
   Pterygodium catholicum  -----   (L.) Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 218 (1800).
   Pterygodium cleistogamum  -----   (Bolus) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 816 (1898).
   Pterygodium connivens  -----   Schelpe, Contr. Bolus Herb. 10: 161 (1982).
   Pterygodium cooperi  -----   Rolfe in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 5(3): 278 (1913).
   Pterygodium crispum  -----   (Thunb.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 849 (1898).
   Pterygodium cruciferum  -----   Sond., Linnaea 19: 109 (1846).
   Pterygodium deflexum  -----   Bolus, Trans. S. African Philos. Soc. 16: 151 (1905).
   Pterygodium excisum  -----   (Lindl.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 852 (1898).
   Pterygodium flanaganii  -----   Bolus, Icon. Orchid. Austro-Afric. 1: t. 98 (1896).
   Pterygodium hallii  -----   (Schelpe) Kurzweil & H.P.Linder, Pl. Syst. Evol. 175: 217 (1991).
   Pterygodium hastatum  -----   Bolus, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 25: 177 (1889).
   Pterygodium inversum  -----   (Thunb.) Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 218 (1800).
   Pterygodium leucanthum  -----   Bolus, Trans. S. African Philos. Soc. 16: 150 (1905).
   Pterygodium macloughlinii  -----   L.Bolus, Ann. Bolus Herb. 1: 131 (1915).
   Pterygodium magnum  -----   Rchb.f., Flora 50: 117 (1867).
   Pterygodium microglossum  -----   (Lindl.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 858 (1898).
   Pterygodium mundii  -----   Schltr., Ann. Transvaal Mus. 10: 251 (1924).
   Pterygodium newdigatae  -----   Bolus, Icon. Orchid. Austro-Afric. 1: t. 99A (1896).
      Pterygodium newdigatae var. cleistogamum  -----   Bolus, Icon. Orchid. Austro-Afric. 1: t. 99B (1896).
      Pterygodium newdigatae var. newdigatae  -----  .
   Pterygodium nigrescens  -----   (Sond.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 847 (1898).
   Pterygodium orobanchoides  -----   (L.f.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 848 (1898).
   Pterygodium patersoniae  -----   Schltr., Ann. Transvaal Mus. 10: 250 (1924).
   Pterygodium pentherianum  -----   Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 432 (1897).
   Pterygodium platypetalum  -----   Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 366 (1838).
   Pterygodium rubiginosum  -----   Sond. ex Bolus, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 20: 486 (1884).
   Pterygodium schelpei  -----   H.P.Linder, S. African J. Bot. 54: 496 (1988).
   Pterygodium sulcata  -----   Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 452 (1832).
   Pterygodium tricuspidatum  -----   (Bolus) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 821 (1898).
   Pterygodium ukingense  -----   Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 546 (1915).
   Pterygodium venosum  -----   Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 367 (1839).
   Pterygodium vestitum  -----   (Sw.) Schltr., Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 857 (1898).
   Pterygodium volucris  -----   (L.f.) Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 218 (1800).

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