Habenaria holothrix Schltr. 1903 SECTION Diphyllae ISOTYPE Drawing by © Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Type Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

SOMETIMESFragrant Part shade Cool EARLY Summer

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 bracts and green to yellow green flowers that are sometimes fragrant.

Synonyms Pseudohemipilia holothrix (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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; Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Pseudohemipilia holothrix drawing ok

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