Habenaria falciloba Summerh. 1951 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl. 1892
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Common Name The Sickle-Shaped Lobe Habenaria
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Found in Zaire and Zambia in woodlands at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, robust stem carrying about 5, erect patent to suberect, broadly lanceolate, acute, decreasing in size upwards, thinly coriaceous to subfleshy leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, rachis terete, densely 20 to 25 flowered inflorescence with leafy, narrowly lanceoalte, acuminate, longer than the flower floral bracts
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution!!!!
Synonyms Kryptostoma falcilobum (Summerh.) Szlach. & Olszewski 2000; Pseudocoeloglossum falcilobum (Summerh.) Szlach. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 14: 215 Summerhayes 1951
The Orchids of Southern Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing ok;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 37: 297 Szlach. & Olszewski 2000 as Kryptostoma falcilobum
Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 335 Szlach 2003 as Pseudocoeloglossum falcilobum
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Pseudocoeloglossum falcilobum
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