Habenaria falcicornis (Lindl.) Bolus, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 340 (1882).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Bilabrella falcicornis Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 20: t. 1701 (1834).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Bonatea bilabrella Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 328 (1835).
Bonatea tetrapetala Lindl., Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 208 (1837).
Bilabrella salsicornis Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 205 (1840), orth. var.
Habenaria tetrapetala (Lindl.) Rchb.f., Flora 48: 180 (1865).
Bilabrella falciformis Bolus, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 340 (1882), orth. var.
Habenaria tetramera Bolus, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 340 (1882), nom. superfl.
Bonatea minor Mundt ex Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 79 (1892), pro syn.
Habenaria bilabrella (Lindl.) Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 86 (1892).
Habenaria mundii Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 79 (1892).
Bilabrella tetrapetala (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras, Richardiana 6: 197 (2006).
Description:
Plant 1–3 ft. high, with stout leafy stems; leaves linear-oblong or somewhat elongate, acute or subacute, somewhat coriaceous, 2 1/2–8 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad, gradually decreasing upwards into imbricating sheaths; racemes oblong or elongate, 3–9 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1/2–1 in. long; pedicels 3/4–1 in. long; flowers white or green and white; dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 3–3 1/2 lin. long; lateral sepals broadly and obliquely semiovate, obtusely apiculate, 3–3 1/2 lin. long; petals 2-partite; upper lobe linear or lanceolate-linear, acute or subacute, as long as the dorsal sepal; lower lobe broadly ovate, obtuse, three to five times as broad as the upper lobe; lip 3-partite; lobes 4–5 lin. long, the front lobe linear, straight, the lateral pair broader and diverging; spur linear, somewhat curved, 1–1 1/2 in. long, slightly thickened near the apex; column 2 lin. long, obtuse; side lobes of rostellum 1 lin. long; stigmas 1 1/2 lin. long, broadly clavate; capsule oblong, 1/2– 3/4 in. long.
Habitat:
No data
Distribution:
Zimbabwe to S. Africa
References:
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.); Seed morphology in Southern African Orchidoideae (Orchidaceae) H. Kurzweil, Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 185, No. 3/4 (1993), pp. 229-247
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