Habenaria praealta (Thouars) Spreng. 1826 Drawing by © Thouars

LATER

Common Name The Very High Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Reunion and Madagascar in humid, evergreen forests and riverine forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by a whorl of leaf bearing sheaths carrying linear, almost grass-like, acute basally clasping leaves that blooms later spring on a terminal, erect, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Satyrium praealtum Thouars 1822

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Satyrium proeultrum [praealtum] drawing fide;

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