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Holothrix secunda Rchb.F.

Tryphia (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Plants erect, scape without bracts, slightly to densely pilose with short fine hairs, 45-300 mm high; leaves glabrous, thick-fleshy. Flowers cream to yellow-green. Sepals glabrous, 1.5-3.5 x 1-2 mm. Petals entire, carnose at apices, adnate to lip at their bases, 2.5-7 x 0.5-2 mm. Lip divided into 5 subequal lobes, carnose, lobes linear, throat with a few papillae at entrance to spur, 3.5-8.5 x 1.5-4 mm; spur slightly curved, 1.5-4.5 mm long. Gynostemium cream and lime-green; anther theca reddish mauve.
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Terrestrial herb, geophyte with root tubers, robust, up to 0.31 m high. Scape minutely and thinly hairy. Leaves 2, flat on ground, up to 35 mm wide, glabrous, not withering before flowering. Inflorescence lax, hairy raceme; flowers secund, many, sepals green, petals and lip white to pale green. Sepals subequal, connivent; dorsal sepal 3 mm long. Petals 5 mm long, cohering with base of lip. Lip 7-9 mm, deeply 5-lobed; spur 3 mm long. Flowering time Aug.-Oct.
Slender, tuberous geophyte, up to 300 mm tall, scape thinly hairy. Leaves 2, basal, ovate, fleshy, glabrous. Flowers many in a lax raceme, sepals green, petals and lip cream, petals entire and fleshy, lip spurred with 5 linear lobes.
Slender, tuberous geophyte to 30 cm, scape thinly hairy. Leaves 2, basal, ovate, fleshy. Flowers many in a lax raceme, sepals green, petals and lip cream-coloured, petals entire and fleshy, lip spurred and with 5 linear lobes.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 7-8
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Images

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Distribution

Holothrix secunda world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:638941-1
WFO ID wfo-0000982924
COL ID 6M9JF
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Tryphia major Tryphia secunda Orchis secunda Holothrix secunda
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