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Holothrix exilis Lindl.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants erect, scape without bracts, slender, densely to very sparsely pilose with long fine hairs at right angle to the scape, 40-290 mm high. Flowers: Sepals usually glabrous or with a few long hairs, 0.8-3.5 x 0.5-1 mm. Petals entire with carnose apices, 1.5-4 x 0.3-1 mm, creamy green. Lip carnose, entire or trilobed, outer lobes very short or up to about half the length of the midlobe, 1.8-3.5 x 0.5 mm, creamy green; spur slightly curved, 0.8-1.8 mm long. Anther thecae pale yellow-green.
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Terrestrial herb, geophyte with root tubers, up to 0.29 m high. Scape minutely and thinly hairy. Leaves 2, flat on ground, up to 8 mm wide, thinly hairy above, withering before flowering. Inflorescence a lax, thinly hairy raceme; flowers secund, many, greenish yellow. Sepals subequal, connivent; dorsal sepal 1-2 mm long. Petals linear, 2-3 mm long. Lip 2-5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, with or without side lobes; spur 1 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-Mar.
Slender, tuberous geophyte to 29 cm, scape thinly hairy. Leaves 2, basal, ovate, glabrescent. Flowers few to many in a dense raceme, green, petals entire, lip entire and shortly spurred.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.17 - 0.29
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Images

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Distribution

Holothrix exilis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:638897-1
WFO ID wfo-0000982875
COL ID 6M9HS
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Synonyms

Holothrix brachylabris Holothrix exilis Holothrix exilis var. brachylabris
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