Habenaria perbella Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Macrurae Kraenzl.

TYPE Drawing by © Rchb.f

Common Name The Beautifully Flowered Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Eritrea and Ethiopia in montane forests ate elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erec, leafy throughout stem carrying 7 leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with leaf-like floral bracts.

Cribb states that this species may be synomonous with H walleri

Synonyms Macrura perbella (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sawicka 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 98 Rchb.f 1881

Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 332 Szlach. & Sawicka 2003 as Macrura perbella; Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------