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Orchid Species: Habenaria dregeana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria dregeana is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1840.
ORIGIN: Found in Zaire, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe and Cape Province, Lesotho, Natal Orange Free State, Swaziland and Transvaal South Africa in open sunny grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect leafy stem carrying 2 basal, ovate to reniform, cordate basally, adpressed to the ground becoming bract-like above leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 3 to 7.4 [7.5 to 18 cm] long, narrowly cylindrical, densely 20 to 60 flowered inflorescence with longer than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying nocturnally scented flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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