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Habenaria chlorotica

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Name

Identification
Habenaria chlorotica Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Habenaria chlorotica Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Habenaria attenuata
  • Habenaria natalensis
  • Habenaria filicornis
  • Habenaria pertenuis
  • Habenaria chlorotica
  • Habenaria moratii

Flora

Entry for HABENARIA chlorotica Reichb. f. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
HABENARIA chlorotica Reichb. f. [family ], in Flora, 1865, 178. —Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 145.
Information
Plant 15–18 in high, rather slender. Leaves about 3, narrowly linear, acute, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long. Racemes 6 in. long, lax, subsecund. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3–5 lin. long. Pedicels 4–6 lin. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, obtuse, 2 lin. long; lateral falcate-oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. long. Petals falcate, lanceolate, subacute, forming a hood with the dorsal sepal, 2 lin. long. Lip tripartite; lobes linear; side lobes 4 1/2 lin. long; front lobe a little longer than the side lobes; spur 11–13 lin. long, slender, very slightly thickened above. Stigmatic processes linear-oblong, 3/4 lin. long. Anther channel slender, 1/2 lin. long. Rostellum linear, 3/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Upper Guinea Huilla; amongst bushes in dry sandy places near a large hippopotamus lake, Welwitsch, 725!

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