Habenaria mannii Hook.f. 1864 SECTION Multipartitae Kraenzl
Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
Drawing by © Kowalkowska/Szlachetko etal 2010
Common Name Mann's Habenaria [German Forest Engineer in India ? 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Nigeria, Cameroon and the Gulf of Guinea Islands in upland grasslands and pastures at elevations of 1400 to 2800 meters as a small to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, glabrous stem carrying 5 to 8, all along the stem, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, rarely ovate, acute to acuminate, decreasing in size up the stem leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, terminal, 1.6 to 8.8" [4 to 22 cm] long, to 25 flowered inflorescence with minutely pubescent along the margins and the midnerve, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying large, wide opening, green flowers.
"Closely related to H macrantha and H praestans but H mannii is distinguished by the glabrous basal part of the lip that is cilaite above. H macrantha has the lip almost entorely glabrous and H praestans is thickly pubescent. H mannii also has linear segments of the lip side lobes that are closwe to each other, almost clustered." Szlachetko etal 2010
Synonyms Kryptostoma mannii (Hook.f.) Szlach.1995; Ochyrorchis mannii (Hook.f.) Szlach.2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 7: 222 Hooker 1864;
Fragm. Florist. Geobot., Suppl. 3: 114 Szlach. 1995 as Kryptostoma mannii
Richardiana 4: 55 Szlach 2004 as Ochyrorchis mannii
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 203 Szlachetko etal 2010 as Ochyrorchis mannii drawing/photos fide
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