Habenaria obovata Summerh. 1932 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl. 1892
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Drawings by © Margonska 2010
EARLY
Common Name The Obovate Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cameroon on upper montane slopes at elevations of 2100 to 3500 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with globose tubers giving rise to and erect, rather stout, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 7, held in the lower part of the stem, oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute, erect to spreading, decreasing in size up the stem leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an erect, 2.8 to 5.6" [7 to 14 cm] long, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying,. small, wide opening flowers.
"A remarkable species without any near relatove known to me. The obovate vary braod petals are also found in H epipactidea and its allies, but otherwise there is very little in common between the 2 species." Summerhayes 1932
Synonyms Pseudocoeloglossum occidentale (Kraenzl.) Szlach. 2006; Roeperocharis occidentalis Kraenzl. 1893
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 67 Kraenzlin 1893 as Roeperocharis occidentalis
* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 191 Summerhayes 1932
Orchidee (Hamburg) 57: 49 Szlach 2006 as Pseudocoeloglossum occidentale
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 209 Szlachetko etal 2010 as Pseudocoeloglossum occidentale drawing fide;
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