Huttonaea woodii Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 38: 114 (1906).
Description:
Plant 3/4–1 ft. high, erect, with rather stout straight stem, distantly 2-leaved; leaves sessile, elliptic-ovate, subobtuse, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, 1 1/4–2 in. long, 1/3 to nearly 1 in. broad; raceme oblong, 2–3 1/2 in. long, somewhat dense- and many-flowered; bracts ovate-anceolate, acuminate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; pedicels 4–5 lin. long; dorsal sepal reflexed, elliptic-oblong, with recurved acute apex and entire margin, 1–1 1/4 lin. long; lateral sepals obliquely and broadly ovate, subacute, the outer margin subcordate, subcrenulate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; petals unguiculate, somewhat diverging, dilated above, with rather long capitate appendages, deeply concave at the base of the limb, 2 lin. long, claw about as long as the limb; lip with a short broad claw and an obcordately dilated limb, about 1/3 in. broad, irregularly fimbriate, with subcapitate appendages; column strongly incurved, 1 1/2 lin. long.
Habitat:
Distribution:
KwaZulu-Natal
