Habenaria notabilis Schltr. 1911 SECTION Medusaeformes Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Remarkable Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1300 meters as a giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, elongate, strict, terete, glabrous, leafy stem carrying erect-patent, lanceolate, ligulate, acuminate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, cylindrical, to 8" [20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous floral bracts that are as long as the flowers

Synonyms Medusorchis notabilis (Schltr.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide; A Guide to the Monocotyledons of Papua New Guinea Part 4 Orchidaceae [in Part] Howcroft 1984; Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017;

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