Habenaria laevigata Lindl. 1840 SECTION Chlorinae
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Cameron McMaster
Common Name The Smooth Habenaria
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Cape Province, Natal, Orange Free state and Transvaal South Africa in well drained montane grasslands at elevations of 700 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with numerous, elliptic, acute, cauline, basally stem clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a fairly dense, 12 to 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying, faintly sweetly fragrant, green flowers with yellowish green petals and lip.
Synonyms Habenaria ornithopoda Rchb.f 1847
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Nat. Hist. 4: 315 Lindley 1840;
Linnaea 20: 696 Rchb.f 1847 as Habenaria ornithopoda
An Introdution tothe South African Orchids Schelpe 1966 photo fide;
Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide;
Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide;
The Cape Orchids Vol 1 Liltved & Johnson 2012 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 77 #3 2013 photo fide;
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