Habenaria macruroides Summerh. 1964 SECTION Macrurae Kraenzl.
TYPE Drawing by © Summerhayes
Collection sheet by © B Hazel and The Royal Botanical Garden Kew WebSite
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Common Name The Macrura-Like Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda and Kenya in swampy grasslands at elevations of 1850 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a single ovoid to ellipsoid tuber giving rise to a stout, erect, leafy throughout stem carrying 8 to 10, erect, stem clasping, lanceolate, acute, grading into bracts above leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, 3.2 to 7.2" [8 to 18 cm] long, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte,a cute, leafy, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts carrying white, sweetly fragrant flowers.
"Resembles H walleri but differs in the with smaller flowers, petals with anterior stipules and the labellum with shorter lateral partitions, anthers with canals with thickly clavate stigmas and differs from H perbella in the petals divided into oblong obtuse anterior partitions, the anthers are canal-shaped and much shorter, and the stigmas are thicker and truncate at the apex." Summerhayes 1964
Synonyms Macrura macruroides (Summerh.) Szlach. & Sawicka 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 17: 515 Summerhayes 1964 drawing fide
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 332 Szlach. & Sawicka 2003 as Macrura macruroides
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 241 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Macrura macruroides drawing fide
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