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Orchid Species: Bonatea pirottae

Kew currently accepted name is Bonatea steudneri

Bonatea pirottae is an orchid species identified by Cortesi in 1904. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bonatea steudneri.
Genus
Bonatea (Bnt.)
Grex
pirottae
Parents
Species
Author
Cortesi
Year
1904
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ORIGIN: Found in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Natal South Africa in dry woodlands at elevations of 900 to 1100 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect leafy stem carrying 7, ovate, acute to apiculate, not overlapping, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, faily lax, 3 to 30 flowered inflorescence with scarious bracts and spreading flowers.

-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Bonatea Bnt steudneri 1894 (Rchb.f.) T.Durand & Schinz
Add+ Habenaria Hab steudneri 1881 Rchb.f.
Add+ Bicornella Bicornella arabica 1889 Deflers
Add+ Bonatea Bnt arabica 1905 (Deflers) Cortesi
Add+ Bonatea Bnt eminii 1898 (Kraenzl.) Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Bonatea Bnt kayseri 1898 (Kraenzl.) Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Bonatea Bnt philippsii 1898 (Rolfe) Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Bonatea Bnt sudanensis 1910 Rolfe
Add+ Bonatea Bnt ugandae 1906 Rolfe
Add+ Habenaria Hab arabica 1897 (Deflers) Kraenzl.
Add+ Habenaria Hab ecaudata 1895 Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.)
Add+ Habenaria Hab eminii 1894 Kraenzl.
Add+ Habenaria Hab kayseri 1894 Kraenzl.
Add+ Habenaria Hab philippsii 1895 Rolfe
Add+ Habenaria Hab sudanensis 1915 (Rolfe) Schltr.
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