Habenaria bosseriana Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.

Drawing by H. B. Margo?ska/ Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2018

MID EARLY

Common Name Bosser's Habenaria [Jan Bosser French botanist in Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoros 1922-2013]

Flower Size

Found in Cameroon and the DR Congo in Dambos at elevations around 1160 to 1200 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, rather stout, glabrous stem carrying 11, linear-lanceolate, acute, erect or suberect, decreasing in size up the stem leaves that blooms in the mid winter through early summer on an erect, terminal, 7.6" [19 cm] long, rather dense,multiflowered inflorescence with widely ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliolate along margins, half as long as the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying green with white center colored flowers.

"In some respects it is similar to H macrotidion, but has shorter anther .104" (2.6 mm long), longer stigmaphores .22 (5.5 mm long), and auriculae bilobed in the apical half only. Szlachetko et al. (2010) compared B. bosseriana to H. chirensis and stated that the former species has ciliate posterior petal lobe, glabrous anterior lobe, shorter rostellum middle lobe, straight stigmaphores longer than upcurved antherophores and different spur form." Kras, a Oledrzynska and Szlachetko 2018

Synonyms Bilabrella bosseriana (Szlach. & Olsz.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Fl. Cameroun 34: 170 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998;

Richardiana 3: 139 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella bosseriana;

Biodiv. Res. Conserv. 51: 137, Kras, a Oledrzynska and Szlachetko 2018 as Bilabrella bertauxiana

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