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Habenaria foliosa

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Identification
Habenaria foliosa (Sw.) Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HABENARIA foliosa Reichb. f. [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 foliosa Reichb. f. [family ], in Flora, 1865, 180;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 191.
Orchis foliosa Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 206.
Bonatea foliosa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 329; Sond. in Linnæa, xix. 82; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 89.
HABENARIA polyphylla Kränzl. [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 214, and Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 436; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 37; Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 46.
Information
plant 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high, with large oblong tubers and stout densely leafy stems; leaves sessile, ovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse or subacute, rather fleshy, imbricate, 1–3 in. long, 1/3–1 in. broad, gradually decreasing upwards; racemes oblong, 2–6 in. long, very dense, many-flowered; bracts ovate or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 1/2–1 in. long; pedicels 1–1 1/2 in. long; flowers rather large, green or green and white; dorsal sepal elliptic-ovate, obtuse, cucullate, 4 1/2–6 lin. long; lateral sepals obliquely semiovate, obtuse, concave, 4 1/2–6 lin. long; petals simple, very broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, obtuse, about as long as the sepals, sometimes broader than long; lip linear-oblong, obtuse, very fleshy, revolute at the margin, 5–7 lin. long, with a pair of short slender lateral teeth near the base; spur 1–1 1/4 in. long, slender below, clavate at the apex; column about 2 1/2 lin. long, obtuse; side lobes of rostellum short and broad; stigmas oblong, very broad and short. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Somerset East, Bowker!COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; Kloof of Kaga Hoogte, Bowie! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens River, Burchell, 4657! Port Elizabeth Div.; around Krakakamma, Burchell, 4563! Ecklon & Zeyher, Emerald Hill, Bolus. Bathurst Div.; Tharfield, Atherstone, 6! Dugmore and near the mouth of the Kowie River, MacOwan, 543! Albany Div.; without precise locality, Miss Bowker! Eastern Frontier of Cape Colony, Hutton!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Tsomo River, Mrs. Barber, 833! Krielis Country, Bowker! near Kentani, Miss Pegler, 864. Tembuland; Umtata District, at Engocasi, 3500 ft., Bolus, 10287. Griqualand East; near Kokstad, Schlechter! by the Tsitsa River, Schlechter! near Clydesdale, 2200 ft., Tyson, 2054. Natal; Attercliffe, 800 ft., and Bishopstowe, Sanderson, 499! Itafamasi, Wood, 724! 1018! Oliviers Hoek, sources of Tugela River, 5000 ft., Allison, 37! near Durban, Gueinzius! Gerrard, 643! 2183! 2185! hill near Mooi River, 4000–5000 ft., Wood, 5245! near Ellesmere, Rudatis, 553! and without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders.KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton! Witzies Hoek, Thode! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Roe in Herb. Bolus, 2650! Wilms, 1362! near Barberton, 2800 ft., Galpin, 793. Waterval Boven, Burtt-Davy, 1428! near Potchefstroom, Burtt-Davy, 1488; near Pietersburg, 4000 ft., Bolus, 10882; near Ermelo, Miss Leendertz, 3129!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Mrs. Bowker!

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