Habenaria weileriana Schltr. 1906 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893
Photo by © Stevart T. and The Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website
Drawing by © Kowalkowska
Collection Sheet by © X M Van der Bergt
Common Name Weiler's Habenaria [Original Collector of species 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon in submontane forests on moss covered rocks along streams and rivers at elevations of 50 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial, lithophyte or epiphyte with an erect, rather delicate, glabrous stem carrying lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute, the lowermost spreading, the upper ones erect to suberect, decreasing in size towards the apex leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 1.08 to 2.4" [2.7 to 6 cm] long, to 3 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bractrs and carrying white flowers.
"This species appears to be related to H procera but the spur of H weileriana is 2 to 2.2" [5 to 5.5 cm] long and the basal undivided part of the lip is .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long." Szlatchetko etal 2010
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 38: 149 Schlechter 1906
Flore du Gabon Vol 36 Szlachetko etal 2004 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Of West Central Africa Vol 1: 143 Szlatchetko etal 2010 drawing fide
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