PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / ORCHIDACEAE / ORCHIDOIDEAE / ORCHIDEAE / HOLOTHRIX / BREVIPETALA
Plants erect, scape without bracts, stout, hispid with reflexed hairs, 60-310 mm high; leaves sometimes withered at anfhesis, densely covered with small squamules or stout hairs. Flowers: Sepals densely pilose, 1-2.5 mm long. Petals entire, carnose at apices, 2.5-3.5 x 0.5-1.5 mm, sometimes warty in texture, yellow-green. Lip carnose, ovate in outline with 3-5 short, broad lobes 2.5-3.5 x 2-3.5 mm, sometimes warty, yellow-green; spur slightly curved, 1-2 mm long. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Terrestrial herb, geophyte with root tubers, up to 0.32 m high. Scape with stiff deflexed hairs. Leaves 2, flat on ground, up to 12 mm wide, densely hairy above, withering before flowering. Inflorescence a lax, hairy raceme; flowers secund, many, greenish yellow. Sepals subequal, connivent; dorsal sepal 2 mm long. Petals narrowly oblong, 3 mm long. Lip 3 mm long, divided into 3-5 short, subequal lobes; spur 2 mm long. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NL. 2019. Orchidaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1890-1958. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Slender, tuberous geophyte to 31 cm, scape stiffly deflexed-hairy. Leaves 2, basal, ovate, stiffly hairy or scaly. Flowers many in a dense raceme, green, petals entire, lip shortly spurred and with 3-5 short, broad lobes. From: Kurzweil, H. 2012. Orchidaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
The squamules or stout hairs on the leaves of this species and the reflexed hairs on the scape are similar to those of Holothrix cernua. However the lip lobes are much shorter and relatively broader than the linear lobes of H. cernua. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Sand and shallow soil in rock crevices. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Rocky areas in dry scrub. Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NL. 2019. Orchidaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1890-1958. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Rock pavements. From: Kurzweil, H. 2012. Orchidaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Western and Eastern Cape as far as Port Elizabeth. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth. From: Kurzweil, H. 2012. Orchidaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
August
0 to 460 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Holothrix hispidula auct., sensu Schltr.
Holothrix parvifolia Lindl., p.p.
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Orchidaceae
SUBFAMILY Orchidoideae
TRIBE Orchideae
GENUS Holothrix
SPECIES brevipetala
30 results for Holothrix brevipetala Immelman & Schelpe
Year
Barcode: PRE0038473-0 Collector(s) & number: Glass, J, PRE 34895 | 1892-11-
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Albany Dist.; Coldstream near Grahamstown.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0067313-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, s.n | 1953-1-3
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Division. Palmiet River Mountains.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0813393-0 Collector(s) & number: Pepler, D, 1 | 1972-1-17
South Africa, Western Cape, George Dist.; Saasveld, Uitkyktoring.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0056731-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 6067 | 1936-1-16
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Peninsula. Rocky Ridge.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0109254-0 Collector(s) & number: Bruyns, PV, 141/75 | 1975-8-10
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town. Top Nursery Buttress.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0044507-0 Collector(s) & number: Thorne, CH, s.n. | 1927-11-
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape. Heidelberg District. Nouwpoort Peak.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0020492-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, EG, 7034 | 1887-1-
South Africa, Western Cape, Table Mountain near Kirstenbosch.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0056734-0 Collector(s) & number: Wasserfall, E, 605 | 1943-11-21
South Africa, Western Cape, Paarl. Slanghoek Mts. Witteberg.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0708147-0 Collector(s) & number: Kassner, T, 19A | 1891-3-2
South Africa, Western Cape, Table Mt.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0056732-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 8284 | 1939-12-28
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Peninsula. Table Mountain. Echo Valley.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0056735-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 16884 | 1945-1-2
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Arieskraal.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0183040-0 Collector(s) & number: Fourcade, HG, s.n. | 1931-1-
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Hills south of Kareedouw.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0660137-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Wyk, AE, 2009 | 1976-12-20
South Africa, Western Cape, Kleinmond; By munisipale gruisgat.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0038533-0 Collector(s) & number: Jeppe, T, TRV 33391 | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Humansdorp Dist.; Above Oudebos.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0056733-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 15466 | 1943-12-16
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Peninsula. Constantiaberg.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0676879-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 6769 | 1982-12-27
South Africa, Western Cape, George Dist.; Foot of Montagu Pass, near George.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0211680-0 Collector(s) & number: Liltved, WR, s.n. | 2007-12-21
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Point, part of Table Mountain National Park after fire.
General notes: About 100 flowering plants (55-125 mm tall with up to 40 flowers) localized to a dry, rocky knoll (c. 120 m a.s.l.).
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0059693-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, s.n. | 1947-12-
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Division near Elgin between Grabouw and Paardeberg.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0274313-0 Collector(s) & number: Starker, H, s.n. | 2011-1-16
South Africa, Western Cape, Outeniqua Mountains, near George.
General notes: This form of H. brevipetala, had up to 25 minute, distantly spaced flowers, had a very slender, reedy scape, reaching 235 mm tall. Covered with short, rough hair, the basal leaf of this tall individual was 20 mm in diameter and green at anthesis.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0181155-0 Collector(s) & number: Swart, LC, s.n. | 1930-9-
South Africa, Western Cape, Hermanus.
General notes: Flowers brown. Geophyte.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Orchidaceae Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3)1890-1958
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Orchidaceae Kurzweil, HIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 177-197
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1999
1996
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
FSA contributions 6: Orchidaceae : Holothrix Immelman, KLBothalia 26(1&2)125-140
1982
BOOK
Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Hall, AV; Linder, HP; Schelpe, EACLE; Stewart, JLMacMillan, Johannesburg
No results found for Holothrix brevipetala Immelman & Schelpe
Status and criteria
LC
Assessor(s)
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