Habenaria kornasiorum Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Replicatae

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Common Name The Kornas' Habenaria

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Found in the Central African Republic in dambos savannahs s at elevations below 600 meters as a large sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, rather stout, glabrous stem carrrying 8, lanceolate, acute, slightly deflexed from the stem, decreasing in size upwards leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, 8.4" [21 cm] tall, rather dense, 40 flowered inflorescence with glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts

Differs from the similar H altior by having narrower, completely ciliolate petal lobes, a slightly twisted spur in the lower part, a shortly stalked gynostemium with slender stigmaphores, that abruptly curve down near the apex. Also similat to H cataphysema but it has shorter stigmaphores and rostellophores, barely reaching .16" [4 mm] long." Szlach. etal 2010

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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Cameroun 34: 180 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

Richardiana 3: 141 Szlach. & Kras 2003 as Bilabrella kornasiorum;

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 220 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella decaptera drawing fide;

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