Habenaria barbertoni Kraenzl. & Schltr. in F.W.L.Kraenzlin, Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 199 (1897).
Description:
Plants fairly robust, 230-400 mm; leaves cauline, c. 10, spreading, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, acute, to 110 x 29 mm. Inflorescences lax, 3-13-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, to 30 mm long; pedicel (2-) 7-15 mm long, ovary slightly curved, 15-25 mm long. Flowers green with white petals and lip. Median sepal erect, deeply concave, ovate, acute, 7-10 mm long; lateral sepals spreading, lanceolate, acute, 8-11 mm long. Petals bipartite almost to the base; upper lobe erect, elliptic, obtuse, as long as the median sepal and adherent to it; lower lobe spreading, narrowly oblong, acute, 4-7 mm long. Lip tripartite, spreading, 11-17 mm long, lobes subequal, 7-12 mm long; midlobe narrowly oblong, obtuse; side lobes linear, acute; spur incurved, inflated and slightly compressed in the apical third, 30-40 mm long. Anther acute, c. 4 mm tall, canals porrect, abruptly recurved near the tip, c. 4 mm long; stigmas clavate, compressed, receptive on the outer side, 3-4 mm long; central rostellum lobe vestigial .
Habitat:
Found in Gauteng and Mpumalanga; on rocky hillsides from 1000 to 1500 m.
Phenology:
Flowering in February and March.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
Northern Prov.
References:
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.); Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 199; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler and Burns 2008
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Photograph© Lourens Grobler. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph© Lourens Grobler. Image used with kind permission.