Habenaria clareae Hermans 2007 SECTION Ceratopetalae KraenzlPhoto courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Part shade Hot warm EARLYSummer

Common Name Clare's Habenaria - in Madagascar - Sinananga

Flower Size 2.8" [7" cm]

Found in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Madagascar in coastal forests, humid, evergrgeen forests, marshes and rocky outcrops in shade at elevations of sealevel to 1800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a leafy erect stem that blooms in the early summer on a laxly several flowered inflorescence

Not to be confused with the name H elliotii for a North American orchid by Beck 1833 which is now a synonym of Platanthera integra and for that reason Hermans renamed this orchid H clareae in 2007

Synonyms Habenaria elliotii Rolfe 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 as H elliotii; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998 as H elliotii; *Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007

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