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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Habenaria

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Orchidaceae

About 800 species (tropics and subtropics), with 75 species native to southern Africa. An additional species is cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Habenaria aberrans

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria amoena

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

Habenaria anaphysema

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria anguiceps

 

Habenaria arenaria

 

Habenaria armatissima

 

Habenaria barbertoni

 

Habenaria bicolor

 

Habenaria calvilabris

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria ciliosa

 

Habenaria cirrhata

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria clareae

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

[= Habenaria elliotii]

 

Habenaria clavata

 

Habenaria cornuta

 

Habenaria culveri

 

Habenaria debeerstiana

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria disparilis

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

Habenaria dives

Habenaria dregeana

 

Habenaria epipactidea

 

Habenaria falcicornis

Habenaria filicornis

Habenaria galactantha

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria galpinii

 

Habenaria harmsiana

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

 

Habenaria holothrix

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria holubii

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria huillensis

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria humilior

 

Habenaria ichneumonea

 

Habenaria kraenzliniana

 

Habenaria laevigata

 

Habenaria laurentii

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria lindblomii

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria lithophila

 

Habenaria macrandra

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Habenaria macrostele

Recorded from Mozambique.

Habenaria malacophylla

Habenaria mira

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria mosambicensis

Recorded from Mozambique.

 

Habenaria mossii

 

Habenaria myodes

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria njamnjamica

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria nyikana

Habenaria papyracea

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria pasmithii

 

Habenaria petitiana

 

Habenaria pilosa

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria praestans

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

Habenaria pseudociliosa

 

Habenaria rautaneniana

Habenaria retinervis

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria schimperiana

Habenaria silvatica

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria singularis

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria sochensis

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria stenorhynchos

 

Habenaria strangulans

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria stylites

Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Habenaria subaequalis

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

Habenaria subarmata

 

Habenaria tentaculigera

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria trachypetala

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria transvaalensis

 

Habenaria tridens

 

Habenaria trilobulata

Habenaria tysonii

 

Habenaria uhehensis

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria uncicalcar

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria unguilabris

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria verdickii

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria weberiana

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Habenaria welwitschii

Recorded from Mozambique.

 

Habenaria woodii

 

Habenaria zambesina

Recorded from Mozambique.

 

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Habenaria radiata

Native to Japan and Korea.