Habenaria dalzielii Summerh. 1932 SECION Bilabrella

TYPE Collection sheet and drawing by Summerhayes and conserved by Kew Science Website

Common Name Dalziel's Habenaria [English Botanist Original Collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Nigeria and Sierra Leone in swamps as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with a globose, glabrous tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 8, the lower 4 linear and acute basally sheathed, the upper 4 decreasing in size leaves and turnng into bracts that blooms in the spring on an errect, terminal, 5.2 to 6.4" [13 to 16 cm] long, 1.6 to 2" [in diameter, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter thna the pedicel floral bracts

A very characteristic member of sect. Bilabrellae, but easily distinguished by the characters given in the diagnosis, together with the obovate dorsal sepal and almost equal lobes of the lip. The pedicels often have a peculiar sharp upward bend just below the ovary." Summerhayes 1932

Synonyms Bilabrella dalzielii (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 339 Summerhayes 1932

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963 ;

Richardiana 9: 158 Szlach. & Kras 2009 as Bilabrella dalzielii

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