Habenaria falcicornis (Lindl.) Bolus 1882

Plant In Situ Zimbabwe Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite

Plant and Flowers in situ Drakensburg SA Photo by © Cameron McMasters

Common Name The Sickle-Shaped Horn Habenaria

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Zimbabwe and Cape, Natal, Orange Free State, and Transvaal South Africa as well as Lesotho and Swaziland in moist grasslands at elevations of 900 to 1950 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with 6 to 10, linear lanceolate to elliptic, cauline leaves all along the stem, upper leaves grading into bracts that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 28" [to 70 cm] long, laxly 6-60 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Bilabrella falcicornis Lindl. 1835; Bilabrella salsicornis Steud. 1840; Bilabrella tetrapetala (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Bonatea bilabrella Lindl. 1835; Bonatea minor Mundt ex Kraenzl. 1893; Bonatea tetrapetala Lindl. 1836; Habenaria bilabrella (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria caffra Schltr. 1924; Habenaria falcicornis subsp. caffra (Schltr.) J.C.Manning 1989; Habenaria falcicornis var. caffra (Schltr.) Renz & Schelpe 1980; Habenaria mundtii Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria tetramera Bolus 1882; Habenaria tetrapetala Kraenzl. ex Rolfe 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 as H caffra;

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