Habenaria woodii Schltr. 1906 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl. Collection Sheet by © O'Connor and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Wood's Habenaria [South African Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Natal state of South Africa in moist subtropical grasslands at elevations of 300 to 600 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a very slender stem carrying a few, narrowly linear, cauline, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, laxly to fairly densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying green, suberect flowers.

"The strikingly slender habit distinguishes this orchid from H dives and all others in the SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl." Schlechter 1906

Synonyms Bilabrella woodii (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 38: 149 Schlechter 1906

Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe and Hall 1982;

Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide; Richardiana 9: 159 Szlach. & Kras 2009 Bilabrella woodiias

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