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| name = ''Calanthe nigricans''

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Calanthe nigricans, Gagnep. Habit loose, light and elegant, erect at first, spreading with age: growths bearing 2-3 Ivs., 2-5 ft. high; blade elliptic, occasionally lanceolate, acute, undulate, 12-20 in. long, rich dark velvety green above, dull red below; petiole 1-4 ft. long, erect; sheath extending to one-third the length of the petiole, upper two-thirds terete, dull green in color: infl. arising from center of the growth of the Ivs., an erect globose spike with large foliose; bracts: fls. 2-3 in the axil of each bract, 1 in. diam., primrose in color, petals shaded with purple; tube 1 in. long; bracts green, reflexed, upper ones forming an umbrella-like mass under which the fls. are developed in the axils of the lower bracts. Trop. Amer. R.H. 1904, p. 576.{{SCH}}

Calanthe nigricans, Gagnep. Habit loose, light and elegant, erect at first, spreading with age: growths bearing 2-3 Ivs., 2-5 ft. high; blade elliptic, occasionally lanceolate, acute, undulate, 12-20 in. long, rich dark velvety green above, dull red below; petiole 1-4 ft. long, erect; sheath extending to one-third the length of the petiole, upper two-thirds terete, dull green in color: infl. arising from center of the growth of the Ivs., an erect globose spike with large foliose; bracts: fls. 2-3 in the axil of each bract, 1 in. diam., primrose in color, petals shaded with purple; tube 1 in. long; bracts green, reflexed, upper ones forming an umbrella-like mass under which the fls. are developed in the axils of the lower bracts. Trop. Amer. R.H. 1904, p. 576.

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