Holothrix etheliae (Bolus) Le Péchon & Bytebier, Phytotaxa 494: 250 (2021).
Homotypic Names:
Bartholina etheliae Bolus, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 20: 472 (1884).
Description:
An erect slender herb, all parts, the flower excepted, pilose 15-25 cm. high; leaf flat on the ground, withering during the flowering period, orbicular, 2-3 cm. in diam.; scape straight, 1- or very rarely 2 fl., flowers horizontal ; bracts cucullate ovate obtuse apiculate, as long as the pedicels; sepals finally reflexed, linear lanceolate acute, connate at base forming a semi-tubular process, 1,2-1 ,4 cm. long; petals erect, oblong-falcate obtuse, a little longer than the sepals; lip spreading, with the spur 4-4,5 cm. long, almost orbicular in outline, obscurely 3 lobed, lobes multisect, the segments spreading-incurved, dilated at the apex into flattened cushion-like processes, the spur acute, 0,6-l,l cm. long ; anther erect oblong acute, the cells twisted, connective produced at the apex; pollinia oblong, the caudicles linear rigid; glands scarcely protruded at base, placed above the narrow passage leading to the stigma ; stigma ovoid, at the apex of the ovary; ovary curved, with the pedicel 2 cm. long.
Habitat:
In sandy places amongst scrub from sea level to 1800 meters.
Distribution:
SW. Namibia to Cape Prov.
References:
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; An Introduction to the South African Orchids Schelpe 1966 Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb & Laurent 1982; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzwell 1999; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Two new names in Holothrix (Orchideae, Orchidaceae) Phytotaxa 494 (2): 2021; POWO (2022). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ Retrieved 28 November 2022."
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| Photograph© Cameron McMaster. Image used with kind permission. |
Photograph© Hermanus Botanical Society, Fernkloof. Image used with kind permission. |
