Holothrix micrantha Schltr.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants erect, scape without bracts, with long straight hairs, 72-170 mm; leaves withered at an-thesis, pilose. Flowers: Sepals with a few hairs at the apex, 1.5-2 x 0.5-1 mm. Petals entire, with carnose apices, 3-4.5 x 0.5-2 mm, colour unknown. Lip 5-lobed, carnose, lobes linear, acute, 3.5-4.5 x 1.5-2 mm; spur curved 1-1.5 mm long.
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Terrestrial herb, up to 150 mm tall. Leaves thinly hairy. Inflorescence fairly lax to dense, flowers numerous. Lip deeply 5-lobed, with side lobes linear, half the length of lip.
Lip 3.5 × 3.9 mm, divided to about halfway into 5 lobes, the entire part 1.7 mm long, the lobes 1.4–1.8 mm long.
Inflorescence 4–7 cm long, several-to many-flowered; ovary 2–5 mm long; bracts long ciliate.
Petals 3.8 × 1 mm, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, entire, opaque and fleshy towards the tip.
Scape without sheaths, with long spreading hairs.
Sepals 1.5–1.7 × 1.3 mm, ovate, hairy.
Leaf 1, ± withered at flowering time.
Spur 1.7 mm long, conical, obtuse.
Terrestrial herb c. 16 cm tall.
Anther 2 mm long.
Ovary glabrous.
Flowers buff.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.16
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Images

Holothrix micrantha unspecified picture

Distribution

Holothrix micrantha world distribution map, present in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:638915-1
WFO ID wfo-0000982897
COL ID 6LXHK
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Synonyms

Holothrix micrantha