Habenaria laurentii De Wild. 1904 SECTION Ceratopetalae KraenzlPhoto courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name Laurent's Habenaria [Belgian Orchid Collector in Belgian Congo [Zaire]]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Mali, Senegal, Benin, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Siera Leone, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zaire, Congo, Burundi,Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in woodlands and thickets at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to ovoid tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 6 to 15, lowermost 1 to 2, reduced to funnel-shaped sheathing, the midlle spreading ovate, acute the upper grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, 2.4 to 12" [6 to 30 cm] long, fairly laxly 3 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Ceratopetalorchis laurentii (De Wild.) Szlach., Górniak & Tukallo 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1995;

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