Habenaria bongensium Rchb.f. 1878 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.

Collection Sheet and Drawing by Schweinfurth

Part shade Summer

Common Name The Bongo Habenaria [refers to its being found in Africa]

Flower Size

Found in Senegal, Chad Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon and Sudan with an erect stem carrying 10, triangular, short, median longest, shorter above and below, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, densely cylindrical, many flowered inflorescence with shorter to slightly longer than the flowers floral bracts.

Reichenbach compares this species with H dives

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 58 Rchb.f 1878

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