Habenaria longirostris Summerh. 1932 SECTION Trachypetalae
Plant and Flowers in situ Burkino Faso
Photos by © Marco Schmidt and West African Plants WebSite
Drawing by © Kowalkowska 2010
Common Name The Long-Beaked Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Guinea Bissau, Burkino Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda and Ethiopia in grasslands often among shrubs at elevations around 900 to 1350 meters as a small to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 6 to 13, spreading, lowermost 2 to 4 sheath-like, the middle, lanceolate-ovate to broadly ovate, acute, the upper 2 to 3, grading much smaller, lanceolate bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 2.8 to 14" [7 to 35 cm] long, rather loosely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the flowers floral bracts.
"A remarkable species for which I can find no near relative. Especially noteworthy are the densely ciliate petals, the remainder of the flower being completely glabrous." Summerhayes 1932
Synonyms Trachypetalum longirostre (Summerh.) Szlach. & Sawicka 2003
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 192 Summerhayes 1932
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 90 Szlach 2003 as Trachypetalum longirostre;
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 photo fide;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 186 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Trachypetalum longirostre drawing fide
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