Habenaria kornasiana Szlach. 1995 SECTION Chlorinae Kraenzl. 1893

Drawing by © Szlatchetko

Common Name Kornas' Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Zaire in dambo as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect, very delicate, glabrous stem carrying 3 to 5, larger, usually 2 sometimes 3, well spaced, usually slender, linear, acute, loosely adpressed to the stem, the upper 2 bract-like leaves that blooms on an erect, to 5.6" [14 cm] long, distinctly spirally arranged, laxly several flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, less than 1/3rd as long as the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Related to both H chlorina and H filicornis but differs from both in the details of the gynostemium." Szlach etal 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 40: 719 Szlach 1995

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 140 Szlach etal 2010 drawing fide

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