PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / ORCHIDACEAE / ORCHIDOIDEAE / ORCHIDEAE / HABENARIA / MOSSII
Plants slender, 180-240 mm; basal leaves 2, broadly ovate to orbicular, acute, 35-70 x 30-70 mm, cauline leaves 13-20, lanceolate, acuminate. Inflorescences fairly dense, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 10-17 mm long; pedicel with ovary curved, c. 15 mm long. Flowers green. Median sepal reflexed, concave, ovate, acute, 5-7 mm long; lateral sepals ovate, acute, 7-9 mm long. Petals deeply bipartite, puberulous; upper lobe erect, narrowly oblong, acute, adherent to the median sepal, 5-7 mm long; lower lobe upcurved, linear, 5-9 mm long. Lip deeply tripartite, puberulous; midlobe narrowly oblong, acute, 6-11 mm long; side lobes linear, acute, 7-10 mm long; spur twisted, slightly inflated in the apical third, 18-26 mm long. Anther reflexed, c. 2 mm tall, canals slightly up-curved, c. 1 mm long; stigmas de-curved onto the lip, narrowly oblong, 2-2.5 mm long; central rostellum lobe triangular, c. 1 mm long. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Terrestrial herb, geophyte, slender, 0.18-0.24 m high; with globose root tubers. Leaves 2, basal, radical, unequal in size, broadly ovate to orbicular, the larger 35-70 x 30-70 mm. Inflorescence fairly dense, racemose; flowers many, resupinate, green. Sepals unequal; dorsal sepal 5-7 mm long, reflexed. Petals divided; upper lobe adherent to dorsal sepal; lower anterior lobe 5-9 mm long, linear curving upwards. Lip 3-lobed, midlobe 6-11 mm long, narrowly oblong, 2 side lobes of similar length or slightly shorter; spur 18-26 mm long, cylindrical, pendent to horizontal, spirally twisted, apex inflated. Flowering time Feb.-Apr. 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]
Terrestrial herb, up to 240 mm tall. Spur up to 24 mm long. Anterior petal lobe and side lobes of lip ± terete. Middle lobe of lip ligulate with ciliolate margins. Flowers green. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Distinguished from Habenaria lithophila by the spreading flowers with larger stigmas, reduced auricles and much longer and twisted spur. The existence of a single specimen of H. mossii from Queenstown in the eastern Cape (Galpin 1501 p.p. in PRE) poses problems of geographical discontinuity, but the specimen is similar in all respects to the others of H. mossii from Gauteng, and distinct in all essentials from the specimens of H. lithophila and H. tysonii on the same sheet, and must be referred to this species. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Grassland on dolerite or black sandy soil. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Rocky grassland. Sub-Escarpment Grassland. 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]
Open grassland on dolomite or in black, sandy soil. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Gauteng and once recorded from the Eastern Cape. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
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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
Habenaria lithophila Schltr. subsp. mossii G.Will.
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Orchidaceae
SUBFAMILY Orchidoideae
TRIBE Orchideae
GENUS Habenaria
SPECIES mossii
14 results for Habenaria mossii (G.Will.) J.C.Manning
Barcode: PRE0860468-0 Collector(s) & number: Mills, L, s.n. | 2009-3-5
South Africa, Gauteng, Irene. Doornkloof 391-JR (Smuts Farm).
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0702174-0 Collector(s) & number: Obermeyer, AA, 449 | 1930-4-
South Africa, Gauteng, PRETORIA DIST.; IRENE; KOPJE E OF RAILWAY.
General notes: In grass.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0992930-0 Collector(s) & number: Mills, L, 16 | 2011-3-23
South Africa, Gauteng, Carletonville. Abe Bailey NR.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0987724-0 Collector(s) & number: Nkuna, LA, 2707 | 2010-4-26
South Africa, Gauteng, At Irene area near the cement-concrete mixing area.
General notes: Millenium Seed Bank.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0475933-0 Collector(s) & number: Coetzee, BJ, 814 | 1970--
South Africa, Gauteng, KRUGERSDORP DIST.; UITKOMST 499 JQ.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0200886-0 Collector(s) & number: McMaster, JC, s.n. | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Red Ridge, Amatola mountains
General notes: Occasional in grassland sweetly scented
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
1997
SERIES
Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters Retief, E; Herman, PPJStrelitzia 6: 1-681
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria
1982
BOOK
Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Hall, AV; Linder, HP; Schelpe, EACLE; Stewart, JLMacMillan, Johannesburg
No results found for Habenaria mossii (G.Will.) J.C.Manning
Status and criteria
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Assessor(s)
Plantae Coordinator
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