Habenaria bicolor Conrath & Kraenzl. 1906 SECTION Chlorinae
Photo by © Estelle Green
Photo by © Douglas McMurtry and The Afriorchids Flickr Orchid Photo Website
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EARLY 
Common Name The Two Colored Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Zimbabwe and Transvaal provinc eof South Africa in open sunny grasslands at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, spreading, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute to attenuate, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, moderately lax, 12 to 35 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts that are longer than the flowers
Kraenzlin compared this species to H ciliosa
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 51: 131 Conrath & Kraenzl. 1906
AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 4 1968 as Habenaria schweinfurthii photo fide;
Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler and Burns 2008 photos fide;
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