Habenaria renziana Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Replicatae

Drawing by © Margonska

Common Name Renz's Habenaria [Swiss Botanist Original Collector of the species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire without locational data as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with an almost globose tuber giving rise to an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 8, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, adpressed t othe stem, decreasing in size upwards leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 3.6"[9 cm] long, loosely to 5 flowered inflorescence with rather densely ciliolate laong the margins and outwards, , half as long as the ovary floral bracts.

" Similar to H subaequalis but H renziana has a spur that is not seollen and it is longer than the pedicellate ovary and the gynostemium is different. B renziana differs from the similar H kilimanjari in having a linear, acute posterior lobe of the lateral petals that is shorter than the anterior one. In H kilimanjari the posterior petal lobe is lanceolate, acuminate and longer than the anterior one." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Bilabrella renziana (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos,,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Cameroun 34: 182 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998;

Richardiana 3: 142 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella renziana

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 228 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella renziana

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