Habenaria tweedieae Summerh. 1933 SECTION Cultratae Kraenzl.Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name Mrs. Tweedie's Habenaria [Original Collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania on roadsides in degraded juniper forests at elevations of 1950 and 2250 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying 9 to 15, lowest sheath-like, the middle 2 to 5, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, the uppermost grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on an erect, 4 to 18" [10 to 45 m] long, densely 15 to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004

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