Habenaria anguiceps Bolus 1889

Plant and Flowers in situ South Africa Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

LATER EARLIER

Common Name The Snake Head Habenaria [perhaps refers to the dorsal sepal]

Flower Size

Found in Cape Province, Natal and Transvaal South Africa in sour rocky grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 1900 meters as a miniature to medium szied, cold growing terrestrial with cauline, acuminate leaves that blooms in the later spring and earlier summer on an erect, usually densely 25 to 50 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008;

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