Habenaria pseudoplatycoryne (Szlach. & Olszewski) ined. SECTION Productae Summerh.

Drawing by © Szlachetko

Common Name The False Platycoryne Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Gabon without locality as a medium sized terresrial with an erect, glabrous stem carrying 7 to 8, held in the lower third, linear-lanceolate, acute, erect-ascending leaves grading to 4 to 6 cauline, herbaceous, as long as the internode, acute, ciliate along the margins bracts above that blooms on an erect, terminal, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, rather lax, 13 to 17 flowered inflorescence with ovate witha lanceolate apex, 3 nerved, herbaceous, densely glandular along the margins ad on the adaxial surface, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying rather small, resupinate flowers.

"Similar to H singularis but it has a fleshy, papillose anterior lobe of the petals a glabrous lip and an upcurved spur which is very swollen apically." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Renzorchis pseudoplatycoryne Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Adansonia, sér. 3, 20: 326 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 as Renzorchis pseudoplatycoryne drawing fide;

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 239 Szlach etal 2010 as Renzorchis pseudoplatycoryne

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