Habenaria pauper Summerh. 1932 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl 1892

Drawing by © Margonska

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Poorest Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaïre in humid savannahs and marshy ground at elevations of 1400 to 1600 meters as a small to just large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a narrowly ellipsoid tuber giving rise to an erect, very delicate, glabrous stem carrying 6 to 12, grasslike, acute, suberect, decreasing in size upwards leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 5.6" [3 to 14 cm] long, rather dense, 5 to 40 flowered infllorescene with sparsely glandular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white to greenish white flowers .

Related to H welwitschii but H pauper has a cylindrical spur shorter than the pedicel and ovary." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Bilabrella pauper (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos,,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 341 Summerhayes 1932;

Richardiana 3: 142 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella pauper

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 224 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella pauper

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