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Habenaria cornuta

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Identification
Habenaria cornuta Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HABENARIA cornuta Lindl. [family ]
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
HABENARIA cornuta Lindl. [family ], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 208;—Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 154; Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 190; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 75; Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 71, and Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 206; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 33.
Information
plant 1–1 1/2 ft. high, with stout leafy stems; leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 1 1/2–4 in. long, subcoriaceous, decreasing upwards; racemes 3–5 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; pedicels 7–8 lin. long; flowers green and white; dorsal sepal elliptic-ovate, obtuse, about 1/3 in. long; lateral sepals spreading, obliquely semiovate, subobtuse, about 1/3 in. long; petals 2-partite; upper lobe narrowly linear, subobtuse, as long as the dorsal sepal; lower lobe strongly incurved, more than twice as long as the upper lobe and tapering upwards from a broader base; lip 3-partite, 1/3 in. long, with tapering lobes, the lateral pair distinctly broader at the base; spur 1/2 in. long, slender below, strongly clavate above; column over 2 lin. long, subobtuse; side lobes of rostellum 2 lin. long; stigmas 1 1/2 lin. long, very stout and capitate. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Transkei; Tsomo, Barber & Bowker, 839! 855! Pondoland; Umtentu River, near the mouth, and near Umsikaba River, Drège, 4570! Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1076! near Clydesdale, 3500 ft., Tyson, 2857! Natal; Izongolweni, Wood, 1997! Oliviers Hoek, sources of the Tugela River, 5000 ft., Allison, 21! near Charlestown, 5000–6000 ft., Wood, 5529!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; marshes at Houtbosch (Woodbush), 6600 ft., Schlechter, 4474! Rehmann, 5815!SOUTH AFRICA Kaffirland; Brownlee, 4! Trimen!

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