Habenaria lefebureana (A.Rich.) T.Durand & Schinz 1894 SECTION Pseudoperistylus P F Hunt
Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
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Common Name Lefevre's Habenaria [French Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Yemen in short grass on rocky slopes and in scrub at elevations of 2600 to 3800 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a leafy stem carrying the largest in the middle of the stem, elliptic to elliptic-ovate leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, cylindrical to rarely pyramidal, densely many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Herminium lefebureanum (A.Rich.) Rchb.f. 1852; Montolivaea aethiopica (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. 2001; Montolivaea lefebureana (A.Rich.) Szlach. 2001; *Peristylus lefebureanus A.Rich. 1840; Platanthera lefeburiana (A.Rich.) Engl. 1892; Pseudoperistylus aethiopicus Szlach. & Olszewski 2000; Pseudoperistylus lefebureanus (A.Rich.) Szlach. & Olszewski 2000;
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 14: 266 A.Rich. 1840 as Peristylus lefebureanus
Linnaea 25: 232 Rchb.f 1852 as Herminium lefebureanum
Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1891: 179 Engl. 1892 as Platanthera lefeburiana
*Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 80 T.Durand & Schinz 1894
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Peristylus lefebureanus;
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 37: 312 Szlach. & Olszewski 2000 as Pseudoperistylus lefebureanus
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 37: 310 Szlach 2000 as Pseudoperistylus aethiopicus
Polish Bot. J. 46: 129 Szlach 2001 as Montolivaea lefebureana
Polish Bot. J. 46: 129 Szlach 2001 as Montolivaea aethiopica
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004 photo fide
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