Holothrix pleistodactyla Kraenzl.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb up to 2.5 dm. high.. Leaves 2, suborbicular or reniform, up to 2 cm. long and broad, hairy, much withered at time of flowering.. Scape densely hairy, the hairs spreading or recurved.. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary, densely hairy.. Sepals ovate, acute, the laterals oblique, 2.5–3 mm. long, long-ciliate.. Petals wedge-shaped, 3–5-lobed in upper third, 4.5–5.5 mm. long, glabrous.. Lip fan-shaped, 11–13-lobed in the upper third, 4–5.5 mm. long, glabrous.. Spur conical-cylindrical, straight, 1.5–2 mm. long.. Ovary nearly sessile, sparsely hairy.
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Inflorescence fairly laxly 3–10-flowered, flowers ± secund; ovary 4–6 mm long, erect; bracts 2–5 mm long, ovate, acute, hairy.
Leaves 2, appressed to ground, usually withered at flowering time, c. 15 mm long and wide, orbicular, apiculate.
Flowers non-resupinate, c. 7 mm in diameter, cream to pale yellow, sepals green.
Spur 1.7–3 mm long, obtuse, more or less straight then upcurved at apex.
Sepals 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm, lanceolate to ovate, acute, glabrous.
Scape without sheaths, pink with white spreading hairs.
Petals 5–7 mm long, with 3 slender lobes 2–2.5 mm long.
Lip similar but with 8–10 lobes.
Terrestrial herb 10–18 cm tall.
Tubers 2, c. 15 × 18 mm, ovoid.
Column very short.
Ovary glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.18 - 0.22
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Distribution

Holothrix pleistodactyla world distribution map, present in Tanzania, United Republic of

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:638928-1
WFO ID wfo-0000982911
COL ID 6M9HG
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Synonyms

Holothrix pleistodactyla Holothrix rorida