Records determined by Nicholas Wightman

Growing in open areas of savannah grassland in sandy loam soils

Growing in exposed edge of roadside verge in sandy gravelly loam soils

Growing amid sparse grasses and forbs in open miombo woodland in sandy loam soil

Locally common on the mounds of a species of Cubitermes

Growing on flood susceptible river bank along the Kalungwishi R. in medium to light shade in clayish loam soil.

Growing in ruderal sites along roadsides and Nkamba Bay airstrip

Growing in small open/deciduous patches within Itigi thicket in sandy loam soil

Growing in open, hot areas of savannah grassland in sandy loam soils

Growing in well drained section of perennially wet dambo grassland in sandy to sandy loam soil

Growing by a rocky outcrop in perennially wet dambo grassland in thin sections of sandy soil over rock or between cracks, oftern inundated in up to 2.5 cm of water.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Small population of albino flowered plants amid regular purple flowered plants

Plants collected off trees cleared along transmission line following D39 road developments and flowered at Dabuyu Farms, Lilayi.

Growing along streamside at the margins of riverine forest in sandy to sandy loam soils

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations may be threatened by overharvesting.

Growing widespread in woodland understory

Old plant growing at low level on base of trunk in rocky outcrop

Growing in the transition zone between Itigi thicket and Pericopsis woodland

Occasional component of woodland understorey growing amongst grasses, sedges and forbs in loam soils.

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Large open perennially wet dambo grassland growing in black muck soils

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Confirmed species harvest for the Chikanda trade

Confirmed species harvest for the Chikanda trade

Growing in leaf litter over granite boulders

Growing in disturbed miombo woodland in sandy loam soils

Growing in riverside grassland edge amidst Pandanus livingstonianus

Lightly degraded Brachystegia woodland in compacted sandy loam soil

Open wooded grassland in sandy loam soil

Cultivated at Dabuyu Farms, Plot 67, Farm 401a Lilayi, Lusaka

Growing naturally on Dabuyu Farms, Lusaka Distr., Lusaka Province

Growing naturally on Dabuyu Farms, Lusaka Distr., Lusaka Province

Cultivated at Dabuyu Farms from material collected on Shantumbu Rd., Lilayi, Lusaka Province

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations may be threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations may be threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations may be threatened by overharvesting.

Picture showing the rostellum mid-lobe standing in front of the anthers.

Chikanda is a local Zambian foodstuff made from the dried ground tubers of a range of terrestrial orchids in the genera Disa, Habenaria, Satyrium, Brachycorythis and Platycoryne

Tubers of this species are used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Cultivated at Dabuyu Farms, Lilayi

Chikanda is a local Zambian foodstuff made from the dried ground tubers of a range of terrestrial orchids in the genera Disa, Habenaria, Satyrium, Brachycorythis and Platycoryne

Chikanda is a local Zambian foodstuff made from the dried ground tubers of a range of terrestrial orchids in the genera Disa, Habenaria, Satyrium, Brachycorythis and Platycoryne

Growing in miombo woodland in sandy loam soils

Growing on various reaches of sand dunes with signs of regularly being burnt back

Growing in shade of large Brachystegia tree in leaf litter

Small tree c. 5 m tall growing in escaprment miombo woodland above Lake Tanganyika

Growing in ruderal roadside margins of heavily grazed open woodland in sandy loam soil

Growing on large boulder on rocky hillside in heavy leaf litter

Growing on large boulder on rocky hillside in heavy leaf litter

Growing in open patches amid short grasses and amongst rocky outcrops in sandy loam to sandy soil

Growing in open exposed areas of savannah grasslands in sandy soils

Open wet dambo grassland growing in black muck soil

Open grassy area of woodland growing in sandy to sandy loam soil

Moist to wet open grassy dambo area of woodland growing in dark sandy clay

Dry to moist sandy edge of wet to innundated dambo grassland in sandy loam soil

Open grassy area of woodland growing in sandy to sandy loam soil

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Undisturbed miombo woodland growing in sandy loam soil

Tubers of this species are possibly used in the preparation of a local Zambian dish called Chikanda with wild populations threatened by overharvesting.

Growing in open exposed areas of Brachystegia woodland in sandy to sandy loam soils

Growing on rail line track bed beside the rails in ballast gravel

The tubers are roundish to discoid in shape with no easily discernible growing point

Growing in humus rich forest soil parasitising the roots of unknown tree

Growing in open exposed areas of savannah grasslands in sandy soils