Habenaria pseudociliosa Schelpe ex J.C.Manning 1989 Photo by © Lourens Grobler and his The Afriorchids Website

Common Name The False Ciliosa Habenaria [refers to its similarity to H ciliosa]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Cape Province, Natal and Transvaal states of South Africa in montane grasslands at elevations around 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, slender to fairly robust stem carrying 6 to 8, cauline, linear-lanceolate, acute, conspicuously barred and spotted maroon leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, fairly densely 18 to 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts with hispid margins and carrying green flowers.

Both H ciliosa and H pseudociliosa have distinctly hispid sepals and bracts and strongly barred basal leaf sheaths but H pseudociliosa differs in the longer spur, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, at least half again as long as the ovary and the side lobes of the lip shorter than the midlobe and the rostellum arms that are lobed adaxially near the base

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide;

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