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Bonatea speciosa

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Identification
Bonatea antennifera Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Bonatea speciosa (L.f.) Willd. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Habenaria unrecorded unrecorded [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Habenaria unrecorded
  • Bonatea densiflora
  • Bonatea antennifera
  • Bonatea speciosa
  • Orchis speciosa
  • Habenaria robusta
  • Habenaria bonatea

Flora

Entry for BONATEA speciosa Willd. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)
Names
BONATEA speciosa Willd. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Sp. Pl. iv. 43;—Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 327; Bot. Mag. t. 2926; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 284; Bauer, Ill. Orch. Gen. tt. 12, 13; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 125; R. Trimen in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 156, t. 1; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 89.
Orchis speciosa Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 401; Thunb. Prodr. 4, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 5; Jacq. Hort. Schœnbr. t. 451.
Habenaria Bonatea Reichb. f. [family ], Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 101; Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 191, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 44; Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 57, Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 179, excl. syn. Harv., and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 2.
Habenaria robusta N. E. Br. [family ], in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 307.
Information
plant 1–3 ft. high, with stout leafy stems; leaves 8–10, sessile, amplexicaul, elliptic or elliptic-oblong to ovate, subobtuse or apiculate, 2–6 in. long, 1–2 1/4 in. broad, somewhat fleshy, spreading or recurved, the upper reduced to bract-like sheaths; racemes oblong, rarely somewhat elongate, 4–8 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long; pedicels 1 3/4–2 in. long; flowers large, green, except the stigmas and lower lobe of the petals, which are white; dorsal sepal cucullate, elliptic-oblong, acute, 9–11 lin. long; lateral sepals obliquely semiovate, acute, 12–14 lin. long; the inner margin adnate to the lip for 1/2 in., then revolute; petals 2-partite; upper lobe falcate-linear, acute; lower lobe lanceolate-linear, acute, 1 1/2 lin. long, curved at the apex; lip 3-lobed to below the middle, 1 3/4 in. long, with linear acute lobes, reflexed at the apex; side lobes diverging, longer than the front lobe; spur 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, slender below, clavate and compressed at the apex; column 4 lin. long, apiculate; rostellum cucullate; front apiculate, recurved; side lobes 1/2 in. long; stigmas 1 in. long, spathulate at the apex, the lower half adnate to the combined base of the lip, front lobe of petals and lateral sepals; capsule oblong, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; near Darling, Peringuey in Herb. Bolus, 13458. Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Miss Kensit. Mossel Bay Div.; near the landing-place at Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6231! thickets near Mossel Bay, Bowie! Knysna Div.; sand hills, Plettenbergs Bay, Burchell, 5306! Groene Vallei, under 500 ft., Drège, 8297! Uitenhage Div.; forests near the Koega River, Zeyher, 6! near Uitenhage, Tredgold! Port Elizabeth Div.; Algoa Bay, Rabjohn! Wilson! Albany Div.; Tharfield, near Grahamstown, Atherstone, and without precise locality, Hutton! Miss Bowker! Bedford Div.; without precise locality, Hutton! Fort Beaufort Div.; Fort Beaufort, and the Kunap River, Atherstone! Stocken-strom Div.; near Kat Berg, Scully! Komgha Div.; rocks near the Kei River mouth, 1500 ft., Flanagan, 647. British Kaffraria; without precise locality, Cooper, 1802! Mrs. Hutton!EASTERN REGION Transkei; near the Coast and the Bashee River, Mrs. Barber, 565! Fort Bowker, Mrs. Barber, 779! Krielis Country, Bowker! Griqualand East; near Newmarket, Krook, Penther, 112. Natal; near Durban, Sanderson, 172! Wentworth Bluff, Sanderson, 490! 1037! near the mouth of the Umlwalumi River, Gerrard, 1848! Inanda, Wood, 969! Weenen District, at Colenso, Krook, Penther, 272.KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Potchefstroom, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3038; near Rustenberg, 4400 ft., Miss Nation, 184.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Thom, 32! 96! Moyle Rogers!

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