Habenaria macrantha Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850 SECTION Multipartitae Kraenzl
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Common Name The Large Flowered Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Yemen, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda in upland grasslands and moors at elevations of 1650 to 3300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect leafy stem carrying 4 to 7, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, rather loosely 2 to 9 flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, lower ones equal to longer than the flowers, lanceolate floral bracts.
Synonyms Kryptostoma macranthum (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Szlach. 1995; Ochyrorchis macrantha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 294 Hochst. ex A.Rich. 1850
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10(9): 272 Summerhayes 1942
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #4 1969 photo fide;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995;
Fragm. Florist. Geobot., Suppl. 3: 114 Szlach 1995 as Kryptostoma macranthum
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;
Richardiana 4: 55 Szlach 2004 as Ochyrorchis macrantha
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rassmussen 2004 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 204 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Ochyrorchis macrantha drawing fide
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