Huttonaea grandiflora (Schltr.) Rolfe 1912
Plant and Flowers in situ South Africa Photos by © Cameron & Rhoda McMaster and their African Bulbs - South African Orchid Page
Common Name The Large Flowered Huttoneae
Flower Size
Found in Cape Province, Lesotho, Natal, and Orange Free State in grasslands on steep slopes or rock crevasses at elevations of 2300 to 2900 meters in full sun as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with two distant, basal one much larger, sessile, ovate, cordate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Huttonaea oreophila var. grandiflora Schltr. 1897
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing/photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 photo/drawing fide;
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