Holothrix villosa Lindl. 1836
Plant and Flowers in situ Table Mountain South Africa Photos by © Cameron McMaster
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Common Name The Hirsute Holothrix - Wollie
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Zimbabwe, Cape Province South Africa and Reunion on grassy slopes at elevations of sealevel to 1900 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with ovoid, villous tubers giving rise to an erect, sheathless scape with 2, adpressed to the ground, cordate, pilose above leaves that blooms usually without leaves in the late winter through spring on an erect, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, spreading hairy, fairly densely many [30 to 50] flowered inflorescence with secund, non-resupinate [most often] flowers
Synonyms Holothrix condensata Sond.1846; Holothrix villosa subsp. chimanimaniensis G.Will. 1990; Holothrix villosa var. condensata (Sond.) Immelman 1981
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999 photo/drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos fide; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide
Holothrix villosa var. condensata (Sond.) Immelman 1981 Photo by © Marland Holderness and his Flickr Website
A variety of the previous species
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;
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