Habenaria arianae Geerinck 1977 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.
Collection Sheets and Photo by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by © M Allard del/Geerink
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Common Name Ariana's Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Burundi, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi and Angola in wet grasslands and seepage areas with shallow soil over rock at elevations of 600 to 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to elliptic tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 10 to 20, lowermost 2 to 3 are sheathing leaves white with dark green reticulation, the middle 5 to 8 are semi-erect, linear, basally widening and the upper few are bract-like adpressed to the stem leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence .
Synonyms Bilabrella arianae (Geerinck) Szlach. & Kras 2009; Bilabrella williamsonii (P.J.Cribb) Szlach. & Kras 2009; Habenaria williamsonii P.J.Cribb 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Notes Taxon. Orchid. Afr. Centr. 5(Habenaria): 7 Geerinck 1977
Kew Bull. 32: 143 P J Cribb 1977 as H williamsonii;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
Flora of Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Orchidaceae Pope 1995;
Richardiana 9: 158 Szlach. & Kras 2009 as Bilabrella arianae
Richardiana 9: 158 Szlach. & Kras 2009 as Bilabrella williamsonii;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella arianae drawing good;
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