Habenaria lindblomii Schltr. 1922 SECTION Diphyllae Kraenzl.
Photo by © Nicholas Wightman and the I Naturalist Website
Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
Drawing © Graham Williamson
Common Name Lindblom's Habenaria [Swedish Botanist Original Collector of the type species 1800's
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in open grasslands or in woodlands at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid, villious tubers giving rise to an erect stem with 2 basal, adpressed to the ground, ovate to reniform, apiculate, fleshy leaves and 5 to 10 bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 2.8 to 7.6" [7 to 19 cm] long, laxly to densely 8 to many flowered inflorescence with herbaceous, erect-patent, elliptic, shortly acuminate, shorter than the ovary flora lbracts and carrying fragrant flowers
Similar to H mechowii but it has smaller, glabrous flowers.
Synonyms Arachnaria lindblomii (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003; Habenaria verdickii var. lindblomii (Schltr.) Geerinck1983
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 8: 224 Schlechter 1922
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok;
Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 53: 290 Geerinck 1983 as Habenaria verdickii var. lindblomii
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as H verdickii var lindblomii;
Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1995 photo fide;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;
Richardiana 3: 156 Szlach 2003 as Arachnaria lindblomii
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 258 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Arachnaria lindblomii
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