Habenaria kilimanjari Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl. TYPE for the section
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Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation At the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name The Mt Kilamanjaro Habenaria
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found in Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia and Angola in seasonally flooded grasslands at elevations of 90 to 200 and 2400? meters as a small to large sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, slender to rather stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 7 to 13, spreading, linear to narrowly lanceolate, grading smaller towards the apex leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 1.6 to 14.8" [4 to 37 cm] long, lax to dense, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, somewhat shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
An insignificant plant reminiscent of H ichneumonea but the division of the upper section of the petals into two separates it.
Synonyms Bilabrella kilimanjari (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Bilabrella lutaria (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Bilabrella martialis (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras 2009; Habenaria lutaria Schltr. 1915; Habenaria martialis Rchb.f. 1881; Habenaria theodorii Kraenzl. 1929; Habenaria uhligii Kraenzl. 1909
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 119 Rchb.f 1881
Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 99 Rchb.f 1881 as Habenaria martialis
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 396 Kraenzlin 1909 as Habenaria uhligii
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 515 Schlechter 1915 as H lutaria
Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 74: 107 Kraenzlin 1929 as H theodorii nom. illeg.
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 249 Summerhayes 1933
Flora of Tropical East Africa Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001;
Richardiana 3: 141 Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2003 as Bilabrella kilimanjari
Richardiana 6: 197 Szlach. & Kras 2006 as Bilabrella lutaria
Richardiana 9: 159 Szlach. & Kras 2009 as Bilabrella martialis
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 227 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella kilimanjari drawing fide
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