!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 1/4"
Found only in eastern South Africa 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 upper smaller, spreading, soft, petiolate base entirely sheathing, lamina sessile, ovate, cordate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 6 to 9 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;
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