Habenaria samoensis F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1893 SECTION Salaccenses
Photo © by Whistler & Cribb
Drawing © by Gordon W Dillon
Common Name The Samoan Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Samoa in lowlands and cloud forests at elevations of 200 to 1550 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terreestrial with an erect stem carrying elliptic-lanceolate to obovate, acuminate leaves at the center of the stem that blooms on a terminal, erect, 10 to 13.2" [25 to 33 cm] long, laxly to subdensly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, eqaul to to a bit longer than the flower floral bracts and carrying green flowers.
Similar to H superflua but much smaller in all its floral parts and with shorter and broader leaves. Kraenzlin & Mueller compared this species to H digitata but differs in the spur which is raised above the flower and curved back almost into a semicircle.
Synonyms Habenaria monogyne Schltr. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 487 F.Muell. & Kraenzl 1893
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 3: 45 Schelchter 1906 as H monogyne
Repert Speciearum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band IX German Samoa Schlechter 1910-11 as H monogyne ;
Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 photo fide
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