Holothrix culveri Bolus 1905

Plant and inflorescence in situ Cape Province South Africa Photos by © Cameron McMasters and The African Plants Website

Common Name Culver's Holothrix

Flower Size .14" [3.5 mm]

Found in southwesern and southern Cape Province of South Africa in grasslands as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basally single, ground-hugging, ovoid to orbicular, cordate, wavy edged, glabrous leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a bracteate, shortly refelexed hairy, 6 to 20" [15 to 50 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying dimorphc flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Schelpe, Linder and Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide;

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