Habenaria procera (Afzel. ex Sw.) Lindl var. gabonensis (Rchb. f.) Geerinck 1983 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl. 1892 Photo courtesy of Guy Ramette Vovan and his Gabon Orchids Website

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Common Name The Slim Gabonese Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Principe, Sierra Leone and Zaire at elevations around 1250 meters as a large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte among ferns and mosses on tree trunks and crotches or as a terrestrial in humus or grassy places among rocks with elongate, woolly tubers with a leafy stem carrying narrowly oblanceolate, light glossy green, deciduous leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, densely several [12] flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring and summer. This species should be potted in a fine mix with moderate shade, cool to warm temperatures, and a dry and cooler winter rest after leaf fall in the autumn.

Synonyms Habenaria gabonensis Rchb. f. 1855; Habenaria gabonensis var. psiloceras (Welw. ex Rchb.f.) Summerh. 1942; Habenaria milnei Rchb.f. 1881; Habenaria ochyrae Szlach. & Olszewski 1998; Habenaria psiloceras Welw. ex Rchb.f. 1867; Habenaria staudtiana Kraenzl. & Schltr. 1897; Habenaria staudtii Rolfe 1898 ; *Orchis procera Afzel. ex Sw. 1805

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as H gabonensis var psiloceras drawing ok; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 as Hab gabonensis;

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