WorldFloraDB - Holothrix longicornu

Characteristics

Terrestrial herb, geophyte with root tubers, up to 0.16 m high. Scape with deflexed hairs. Leaves 2, flat on ground, up to 20 mm wide, dense, short hairs above, not withering before flowering. Inflorescence a lax, hairy raceme; flowers secund, many, yellowish green. Sepals subequal, connivent; dorsal sepal 3 mm long. Petals linear, 4 mm long. Lip 4 mm long, deeply 5-lobed with subequal lobes; spur 4 mm long. Flowering time Oct.

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Plants erect, scape without bracts, with dense short retrorse hairs, 65-154 mm high; leaves with dense, soft, short, sinous hairs. Flowers: Sepals connate at base, glabrous, 1.5-2.5 x c. 0.5 mm. Lip carnose, divided into 3-5 short, broadly linear lobes, 2.5-3 x 1-1.5 mm; spur narrowly conical, straight, longer than lip, 3-4 mm long.

Slender, tuberous geophyte to 15 cm, scape deflexed-hairy. Leaves 2, basal, ovate, hairy. Flowers with basally connate sepals, lip spurred and with 3-5 short, oblong lobes.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:638910-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000982890
COL ID	6LXHQ
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Synonyms

Holothrix longicornu

WorldFloraDB 2024

Holothrix longicornu G.J.Lewis

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