Pterygodium hallii (Schelpe) Kurzweil & H.P.Linder 1991 SECTION Anochilus Photo by Hubert Kurzweil ©, and his South African Orchid Website

Plant In Situ Cape Province Photo by © Cameron & Rhoda Mc Masters and their African Bulbs Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name Hall's Pterygodium

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in western Cape Province South Africa among short, dry scrub as a slender to robust, medium szied, cold growing terretrial with lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, fairly dense, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Anochilus hallii Schelpe 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001

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