Habenaria edgarii Summerh.1942 SECTION Diphyllae KraenzlPhoto courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Part sun warm Cool Spring Summer

Common Name Edgar's Habenaria

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Zaire, Tanzania and Zambia in wet dambos, tall grasslands and woodlands at elevations of 1500 to 1750 meters as a medium to just large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect leafy stem carrying 2 basal, reniform, apiculate or rounded basally, adpressed to the ground becoming bract-like above leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, laxly 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with floral bracts that are much shorter than the ovaries

Synonyms Arachnaria edgarii (Summerh.) Szlach. 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995;

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