Habenaria occidentalis (Lindl.) Summerh. 1933 SECTION Plantagineae

Drawing by Francisco Perez-Vera

Common Name The Western African Habenaria

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm

Found in Ivory Coast, Benin, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Chad and Zaire in the dryer seasonally wet savannahs at elevations of 200 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with hairy tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying a single, basal appled to the substrate, oval, acute, mottled, leaf and 2 small leaf sheaths spaced out along the ascending psrt of the stem, that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acute, as long as to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate orange to yellow flowers with the ovary and the outer sepals pubescent.

Synonyms Amphorkis occidentalis Lindl.1862; Cynorkis occidentalis (Lindl.) T.Durand & Schinz 1894; Schlechterorchis occidentalis (Lindl.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 6: 139 Lindley 1862 as Amphorkis occidentalis

Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 92 T.Durand & Schinz 1894 as Cynorkis occidentalis

* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 246 Summerhayes 1933

Fl Afr Centr Orchid Vol 1: 60 Geerinck 1984;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 219 Szlach 2003 as Schlechterorchis occidentalis

Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 192 Szlach etal 2010 as Schlechterorchis occidentalis drawing fide

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