Habenaria falcicornis (Lindl.) Bolus 1882 SECTION Replicatae.

Photo by Cameron & Rhoda McMaster ©,

Partial Shade ColdSummer

Common Name The Sickle-Shaped Horn Habenaria

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in eastern Cape Province and Natal South Africa in moist grasslands at elevations of 900 to 1950 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 6 to 10, linear lanceolate to elliptic, cauline leaves all along the stem, upper leaves grading into bracts that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 28" [to 70 cm] long, laxly 6-60 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Bilabrella falcicornis Lindl. 1835; Bilabrella falciformis Bolus 1882; Bilabrella salsicornis Steud. 1840; Bilabrella tetrapetala (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Bonatea bilabrella Lindl. 1835; Bonatea minor Mundt ex Kraenzl. 1893; Bonatea tetrapetala Lindl. 1836; Habenaria bilabrella (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria mundtii Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria tetramera Bolus 1882; Habenaria tetrapetala (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 20: t. 1701 Lindley 1834 as Bilabrella falcicornis;

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 328 Lindley 1835 as Bonatea bilabrella;

Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 208 Lindley 1837 as Bonatea tetrapetala;

Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 205 Steud. 1840 as Bilabrella salsicornis orth. var.

Flora 48: 180 Rchb.f 1865 as H tetrapetala;

J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 340 Bolus 1882 as Bilabrella falciformis orth. var.

J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 340 Bolus 1882 as H tetramera nom. superfl.

* J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 340 Bolus 1882 as H falciformis sp

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 79 Kraenzlin 1892 as Bonatea minor pro syn.

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 86 Kraenzlin 1892 as Habenaria bilabrella;

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 79 Kraenzlin 1892 as H mundi;

Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999;

Richardiana 6: 197 Szlach 2006 as Bilabrella tetrapetala

Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 as H caffra in part photo fide;

The Cape Orchids Vol 1 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photo fide;

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