Habenaria culveri Schltr. 1895

Plant and Flowers in situ Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name Culver's Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Natal, Swaziland and Transvaal in mistbelt evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, slender terrestrial with an erect, leafy throughout stem carrying 7 to 10, cauline, alternate, widely spaced, elliptic, crenulate margin, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, laxly 9 to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

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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; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photo s good;

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