Habenaria maitlandii Summerh. 1932 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl 1892

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Common Name Maitland's Habenaria [British Botanist Original Collector of the species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Cameroon at elevations around 1700 meters as a just medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 2 to 7, narrowly lanceoalte, acute, suberect, decreasing in size upwards leaves that bloos in the late spring on an erect, terminal, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, rather lax, 9 to 16 flowered inflorescnee with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, resupinate, white to green flowers

Differs from all others in west central Africa by the ciliolate-papillate , similar petal lobes." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Bilabrella maitlandii (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos,,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 341 Summerhayes 1932 ;

Richardiana 3: 141 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella maitlandii

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 226 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella maitlandii

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