Habenaria busseana Kraenzl. 1902 SECTION Diphyllae

Type Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

partial sun Cool Cold LATER Spring

Common Name Busse's Habenaria [German Original Collector of species late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ethiopia and Tanzania in grasslands at elevations of 1580 to 2450 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous, somewhat flexuous stem carrying a single, basal, adpressed to the ground, broadly ovate to reniform leaf that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, 2.4 to 4.6" [6 to 12 cm] long, 13 to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, scarcely as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"Differs from H holothrix and H keayi by the stem and sepals being glabrous rather than pubescent." Demissew,Cribb & Rassmusen 2004

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 54 Kraenzlin 1902

Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;

Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew,Cribb & Rassmusen 2004;

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