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Orchidaceae - Orchidoideae - Diseae - Huttonaea Harv.

Description:

  • Terrestrial herbs, with ovoid root tubers
  • Leaves few, cauline, soft, decreasing progressively in size up stem
  • Inflorescence a short and few-flowered raceme; flowers white to mauve; bracts lanceolate
  • Sepals ovate to lanceolate; laterals larger and broader, oblique
  • Petals clawed, limb broad and fimbriate
  • Lip fimbriate, unspurred
  • Gynostemium short and broad; anther thecae adjacent at their apices and somewhat diverging towards base, anther canals not prominent; pollinia 2, sectile, with somewhat elongated caudicles attached to separate viscidia
  • Capsule oblong

Nomenclature:

  • Huttonaea Harv.
    • Harvey: vol. 2: 1 (1863)
    • Rolfe: 111 (1912)
    • Phillips: 231 (1951)
    • Schelpe: 68 (1966)
    • Stewart et al.: 68 (1982)
    • Linder & Kurzweil: 295 (1999)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Species 5, Mpumalanga, E Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • HARVEY, W.H. 1863. Thesaurus capensis Vol. 2. Hodges, Smith & Co., Dublin
  • LINDER, H.P. & KURZWEIL, H. 1999. Orchids of southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
  • ROLFE, R.A. 1912. Order CXXXI. Orchideae. Flora capensis 5,3
  • SCHELPE, E.A. 1966. An introduction to the South African Orchids. Purnell & Sons, Cape Town, Johannesburg
  • STEWART, J., LINDER, H.P., SCHELPE, E.A. & HALL, A.V. 1982. Wild orchids of southern Africa. Macmillan, Johannesburg

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