Habenaria galpinii Bolus 1893 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl Photos by © Lourens Grobler
Plant and Flowers in situ Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
Common Name Galpin's Habenaria [South African banker and Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Zimbabwe and Transvaal South Africa in wet soils over rocks at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with several, rather large, oblong tubers giving rise to a leafy erect stem carrying 4 to 7, upper mostly bract-like, lower close set near base and semi-erect, undulate margined leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence carrying semi-erect, faintly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Bilabrella galpinii (Bolus) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Bilabrella incurva (Rolfe) Szlach. & Kras 2009; Habenaria incurva Rolfe 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe and Hall 1982; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide;
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