Habenaria renziana Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Replicatae

Drawing by © Szlachetko

Part Shade Hot Warm

Common Name Lisokowski's Habenaria [Polish Botanist Original Collector of the species 1924 - 2002]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire at elevations below 600 meters as a medium sized hot to warm growing terrestrial with ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 6, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves the upper 3 to 4 diminishing rapidaly in size to the bract-like leaflets that blooms on an erect, terminal, 4.4 to 4.8" [11 to 12 cm] long, rather loosely 9 to 16 flowered inflorescence with densely glandular on both sides, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

similar to HY strangulans but H liskowskii has a pendent spur, both petal lobes ciliate and the antherophores .28" [7 mm] long." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Bilabrella lisowskii (Szlach.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 40: 721 Szlach 1995;

Richardiana 3: 141 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella liskowskii

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 233 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella liskowskii

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