Green Wood Orchid, Bonatea speciosa, Orchidaceae. Wild Specimen Growing in Featherbed Nature Reserve, Knysna, South Africa.

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Green Wood Orchid, Bonatea speciosa, Orchidaceae. Wild Specimen Growing in Featherbed Nature Reserve, Knysna, South Africa. Moederkappie, Oktoberlelie (Afrikaans names) Bonatea is a small African genus, distributed from Arabia to eastern and southern Africa. In the southern African region it is represented by ten species. The genus is very similar to Habenaria, differing merely in details of the flower structure. Flowers are frequently fairly large. The species grow mainly in scrub-forest, dune forest and savanna. Most species occur only in the summer-rainfall region and only B. speciosa ranges as far west as Cape Town.

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Location: Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa
Photo credit: © Florapix / Alamy / Afripics
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