Habenaria clareae Hermans 2007 SECTION Pentaceras Kraenzl

Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

Part shade Hot Cool Summer EARLYFall

Common Name Clare's Habenaria - in Madagascar - Sinananga

Flower Size 2.8" [7" cm]

Found in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Madagascar in coastal forests, humid, evergreen forests, marshes and rocky outcrops in shade at elevations of sealevel to 1800 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a leafy erect stem that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, 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 ;

J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 29: 57 Rolfe 1891 as H elliotii nom. illeg.

A< href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/263566#page/101/mode/1up"> Repert. Specierum Nova. Regni Vegetabilis Band 33 Schlechter 1925 as H elliotii;

Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 as H elliotii;

Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998 as H elliotii;

*Orchids of Madagascar ed 2: 195 Hermans 2007;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide;

Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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