Habenaria papyracea Schltr. 1915 SECTION Pentaceras Kraenzl.
Photo by © N Wightman and The Flora of Zambia Website
Another Drawing and Collection sheet
TYPE Drawing/ Drawing and collection sheet by © Schlechter/Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
LATER
EARLY
Common Name The Papery Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Nigeria, Zaire, Sudan, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in grasslands and open areas of woodlands at elevations of 600 to 2100 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to almost globose tuber giving rise to an erectr, rather stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 8 to 14, the lowermost, 2 to 4 sheathlike, the middle ones, more or less spreading, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, basally clasping, the uppermost grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 4 to 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with glabrous, as long as to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying sometimes fragrant flowers.
"Differs from H barrina, Habenaria uhehensis and H malacophylla by havinf sessile, short leaves that are gathered in the lower part of the stem. The other three species have rather long, lanceolate shortly petiolatae leaves gathered just below the inflorescence." Szlatchecko etal 2010
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 498 Schlechter 1915
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 158 Szlatchecko etal 2010 drawing good
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