Habenaria luentensis Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Pentaceras

Drawing by © Kowalkowska

Common Name The Luente Habenaria [an area of Zaire]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire in dambo as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect, rather delicate, glabrous stem carrying 7, gathered in the lower part of the stem, linear-lanceolate, acute, the lower spread, the upper erect, decreasing in size up the stem, the uppermost bractlike leaves that blooms on an erect, to 3.8" [9.5 cm] long, rather dense, to 25 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Differs from others in the SECTION Pentaceras by having large bipartite petals with both lobes nearly equal in size." Szlach etal 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Fl Camerooun 34: 136 Szlach & Olszewski 1998;

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 148 Szlach etal 2010 drawing fide

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