Habenaria magnirostris Summerh.1960 SECTION Pentaceras
Photos © by Nicholas Wightman and The Flora of Mozambique Website
Drawing © by Margaret Stones
Common Name The Large Beaked Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in wet dambos and boggy grasslands at elevations of 1450 to 1650 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a globose tuber giving rise to an erect, leafy stem enveloped completely by leaf sheath bases carrying about 6, the 2 lowermost sheth-like, the uppermost 2 bractlike, the rest semi-erect, lanceolate to linearacute rather fleshy leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, 1.6 to 6.8" [4 to 17 cm] long, 2 to 20 flowered inflorescence with glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying green to yellow-green flowers.
H magniriostris is easily identified by its massive rostellum middle lobe produced on the front of the anther.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 14: 132 Summerhayes 1960
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
Flora of Zambia Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 155 Szlatchecko etal 2010 drawing fide
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