Habenaria filicornis Lindl. 1835 SECTION Chlorinae Kraenzl. 1892

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

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Common Name The Thread Shaped Flower Spur Habenaria

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Siera Leone, Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malami, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, and Natl and Transvaal States of South Africa in grassland, both in drier parts of bog and on shallow gravely soil at elevations of 1150 to 2300 meters as a small to large sized, warm growing terrestrial with nearly erect to recurved, lanceolate to elliptical-lanceolate, acute leaves scattered along the slender, erect stem and blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal erect, up to 8" [20 cm] long, few to many-flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Habenaria chlorotica Rchb.f. 1865; Habenaria deflexa Hochst. ex Kraenzl. 1892; Habenaria erythraeae Rolfe 1898; Habenaria filicornis var. chlorotica (Rchb.f.) Geerinck 1982; Habenaria moratii Szlach. & Olszewski 1998; Habenaria natalensis Rchb.f. 1881; Habenaria pertenuis Kraenzl. 1929; Habenaria spiranthes Rchb.f. 1865; Habenaria tridactyla A.Rich. 1847; Habenaria wilmsiana Kraenzl. 1898; Orchis filicornis Thonn.1827

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as Habenaria chlorotica and Habenaria filiconis; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004