!Huttonaea pulchra Harv. 1863 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of © Dr Schelpe
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Common Name The Beautiful Huttonaea
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found only in eastern South Africa at elevations 1000 to 1800 meters in forest patches on steep, southwestern slopes with a summer rainfall season in deep shade as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying 2, the lower larger, cordate, elliptic, the upper smaller, spreading, soft, petiolate base entirely sheathing leaves that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, erect, laxly, 6 to 20 flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; An Introduction to the South African Orchids Schelpe 1966; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photo;
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