Habenaria macrura Kraenzl. 1893 SECTION Diphyllae Kraenzl.
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
Drawing by © Margonska/Szlatchecko etal 2010
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Common Name The Long Spurred Habenaria
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Nigeria, Gabon, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zaire, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in montane grasslands at elevations of 1200 to 2400 meters as a small to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to almost globose, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 2 basal, adpressed to the ground, ovate to almost orbicular, acute, slightly cordate basally leaves and then a 5 to 6 rather loosely sheath-like leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, laxly 1 to 11 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, glabrous, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate, white or cream colored flowers with the outside ofd the sepals green and has a spicy carnation fragrance.
"Closely related to H galactantha but it has distinctly larger flwoers witha longer lip, spur and stigmatophores." Szlatchecko etal 2010
Synonyms Arachnaria macrura (Kraenzl.) Szlach. 2003; Habenaria pentaglossa Kraenzl. 1902
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 152 Kraenzlin 1892
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The
Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984;
Orchids of the Central African Republic A Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1986;
Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1995;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide;
Richardiana 3: 157 Szlach 2003 as Arachnaria macrura
Flore du Gabon Vol 36 Szlachetko etal 2004 drawing ok;
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 photo fide;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 250 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Arachnaria macrura drawing fide;
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