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Holothrix mundii Sond.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants erect, scape without bracts, with short, slightly reflexed hairs, 60-160 mm high; leaves glabrous. Inflorescences condensed at the top of the scape. Flowers: Sepals glabrous, 1-2 x 0.3-0.5 mm, white. Lip membranous, 7-lobed, midlobe and outer pair longer than other 4 lobes, papillate at the entrance to the spur, 1.5-3.5 x 0.5-2 mm, white; spur straight 0.5-1.5 mm long. Gynostemium green; anther thecae bright pinkish mauve.
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Terrestrial herb, geophyte with root tubers, up to 0.16 m high. Scape thinly hairy. Leaves 2, flat on ground, up to 20 mm wide, not withering before flowering. Inflorescence a dense, thinly hairy raceme; flowers secund, 3-8, white. Sepals subequal, connivent; dorsal sepal 1.5 mm long. Petals lanceolate, 2 mm long. Lip 3-4 mm long, deeply lobed with 3-7 unequal lobes; spur 1 mm long. Flowering time Sept., Oct.
Slender, tuberous geophyte to 16 cm, scape thinly hairy. Leaves 2, basal, ovate, fleshy. Flowers in a condensed raceme, sepals green, petals and lip white, petals entire, lip spurred and with 7 broad lobes.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.11 - 0.16
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Distribution

Holothrix mundii world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:638919-1
WFO ID wfo-0000982901
COL ID 6LXHL
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Synonyms

Holothrix mundii
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