Habenaria filicornis Lindl. 1835 SECTION Chlorinae Kraenzl. 1892
Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
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Common Name The Thread Shaped Flower Spur Habenaria
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malami, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, and Natal and Transvaal States of South Africa in grassland, both in drier parts of bog and on shallow gravely soil at elevations of 1000 to 2300 meters as a small to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with nearly erect to recurved, lanceolate to elliptical-lanceolate, acute leaves scattered along the slender, erect stem and blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal erect, up to 8" [20 cm] long, laxly few to many [12 to 25] flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Habenaria chlorotica Rchb.f. 1865; Habenaria deflexa Hochst. ex Kraenzl. 1892; Habenaria erythraeae Rolfe 1898; Habenaria filicornis var. chlorotica (Rchb.f.) Geerinck 1982; Habenaria moratii Szlach. & Olszewski 1998; Habenaria natalensis Rchb.f. 1881; Habenaria pertenuis Kraenzl. 1929; Habenaria spiranthes Rchb.f. 1865; Habenaria tridactyla A.Rich. 1847; Habenaria wilmsiana Kraenzl. 1898; Orchis filicornis Thonn.1827
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as H spiranthes; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 as H chlorotica; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as H chlorotica drawing good; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing hmm; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as H chlorotica photo fide; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as Habenaria chlorotica and Habenaria filiconis; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as H filicornis var chlorotica; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 as H chlorotica; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as H chlorotica drawing fide
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