Habenaria culveri Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20(50): 14 (1895).
Description:
Plant 1 ½–1 ¾ ft. high, with rather stout leafy stems; leaves 4 or 5, subsessile, elliptic or lanceolate-oblong, subacute, very membranous, 2 ½–4 ½ in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad; racemes 4 ½–6 in. long, lax, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, ¼– ½in. long; pedicels 5–6 lin. long; flowers green (Culver); dorsal sepal broadly ovate, obtuse, somewhat concave, 2 lin. long; lateral sepals obliquely ovate, obtuse, 2 ½ lin. long; petals 2-partite; upper lobe broadly linear, subobtuse, as long as the dorsal sepal; lower lobe narrowly linear or subfiliform, half as long and a quarter as broad as the upper lobe; lip 3-lobed; front lobe narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, about 3 lin. long; side lobes diverging at right angles, linear, acute, about ½lin. long; spur about 4 lin. long, cylindrical, somewhat curved; column about 1 lin. long, broad, obtuse; side lobes of rostellum about 1/3 lin. long; stigmas clavate-oblong, 1 lin. Long.
Habitat:
In mistbelt evergreen forests at elevations of 1000 to 1800 meters.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, cold growing, slender terrestrial.
Distribution:
Mpumalanga to KwaZulu-Natal
References:
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.); Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008; Stewart, J., H.P. Linder, E.A. Schelpe, A.V. Hall. 1982. Wild Orchids of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg.
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Photograph© Lourens Grobler. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph© Lourens Grobler. Image used with kind permission.