Habenaria macrandra Lindl. 1862 SECTION Podrandria [Rolfe] Hunt 1968 type for section

Plant In Situ Zimbabwe Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite

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Common Name The Large Anther Habenaria

Flower Size 2.5" [6 cm]

Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Siera Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe growing in leaf litter on forests floor in deep shade of upland and lowland rainforests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a large to giant sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, slender stem with a cluster of, lanceolate, somewhat pleated, dark green, acute, petiolate, basal leaves and a few smaller ones on up the stem that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, to 1.6 to 8" [4 to 20 cm] long, loosely, 2 to 11 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Habenaria stenorhynchus Kraenzl. 1902; Podandria macrandra (Lindl.) Rolfe 1898; Podandriella macrandra (Lindl.) Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997