Habenaria holothrix Schltr. 1903 SECTION Diphyllae
ISOTYPE Drawing by © Jany Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
SOMETIMES
EARLY 
Common Name The Completely Hairy Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe in seasonally wet, grassy depressions at elevations around 1150 to 1360 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, sparsely tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, with spreading hairy stem carrying a single, basal, adpressed to the ground, broadly ovate to orbicular, basally cordate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on top, ciliate margined, apiculate leaf, bract-like, hairy leaves above up the stem that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, .4 to 4.4" [1 to 11 cm] long, laxly 2 to 20 flowered inflorescence with softly hairy, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying green to yellow green flowers that are sometimes fragrant.
Synonyms Pseudohemipilia holothrix (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* O.Warburg (ed.), Kunene-Sambesi Exped.: 204 Schlechetr 1903
Flora of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 216 Szlach 2003 as Pseudohemipilia holothrix
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004;
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