Orchidaceae
Habenaria

Habenaria clavata (Lindl.) Rchb.f.

First published in Flora 48: 180 (1865)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Guinea, Nigeria to Ethiopia and S. Africa. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Ethiopia, Free State, Guinea, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Catarino, L., Sampaio Martins, E., Pinto-Basto, M.F. & Diniz, M.A. (2006). Plantas Vasculares e Briófitos da Guiné-Bissau: 1-298. Instituto de investigação científica tropical, Instituto Português de apoio ao desenvolvimento.
  • Demissew, S., Cribb, P. & Rasmussen, F. (2004). Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids: 1-300. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • in Flora 48: 180 (1865).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Oct 1, 2006 Cheek, M. [13297] Guinea K:SPC-75004.000 No
Milne-Redhead, E.; Taylor, P. [9577] Tanzania K:SPC-05905.000 No
Williamson, G. [260] Zambia K:SPC-33148.000 No
Cribb, P.; Grey-Wilson, C. [10546] Tanzania K:SPC-36732.000 No
Schaijes, M. [2792] Congo, Democratic Republic of the K:SPC-50391.000 No
Zambia K:SPC-01800.059 No
Bingham, M.G.; Jeffery, R. [12519] Zambia K000395791 Yes
Richards, H.M. [15948] Zambia K:SPC-03740.000 No
Richards, H.M. [12101] Tanzania K:SPC-21720.000 No
Courtenay-Latimer, S. South Africa K:SPC-27809.000 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images