Habenaria arenaria Lindl. 1835 Photo courtesy of © Pieter Bouwer

Common Name The Sand Loving Habenaria

Flower Size 3/8" [1.1 cm]

Found in Mozambique, Cape Province, Natal and Transvaal South Africa in shade in montane thickets at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial witha slender stem with 2 to 3, radical but not adpressed to the ground, dappled/mottled gray-silver to plain above leaves that blooms fall on a terminal, erect, vary laxly 8 to 25 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Bonatea micrantha Lindl. 1835; Habenaria micrantha (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008;

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