Habenaria quartzicola Schltr. 1924 SECION Bilabrella
Plant and Flowers in situ Ethiopia
Photos by © Solofo Eric Rakotoarisoa and the I Naturalist Website
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Quartz Loving Habenaria [refers to the rocky quartzite outcrops that this species prefers]
Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]
Found in central Madagascar in rocky quartzite outcrops and wet flushes at elevations around 800 to 1600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestro-lithophyte with 3 elongated tubers giving rise to a glabrous stem carrying 5 to 6, above the middle, sub-erect, linear-acute, conduplicate leaves that blooms in the later summer on a dense, 2" [5 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-acuminate, almost equal to the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to H bathiei but H quartzicola is smaller overall in plant habit and larger in flower size, has glabrous flowers and carries pure white flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Specierum Nova. Regni Vegetabilis Band 33: 93 Schlechter 1925;
Flora of Madagascar: 48 Perrier 1939;
Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, DuPuy, Cribb & Bosser 2007;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009;
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