Habenaria genuflexa Rendle 1895 SECTION Replicatae KraenzlPhoto courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name The Kneeling Habenaria [refers to the bent pedicel]

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Found in Senegal, Siera Leone, Benin, Ghana, Togo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Zambia in wet or swampy grasslands at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a leafy erect stem carrying 7 to 11, lowermost mostly sheathing, the next 4 to 6, semi-erect to spreading, linear to lanceolate upper mostly bract-like leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, to 2 to 10.8" [5 to 27 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying foul smelling flowers

Synonyms Bilabrella genuflexa (Rendle) Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2003; Habenaria confusa Rolfe 1898; Habenaria stenoloba Schltr. 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998;

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