Habenaria peristyloides A.Rich. 1840 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl.
Drawing © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Peristylis-Like Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Yemen in short, upland grasslands, marshes and open scrub at elevations of 1650 to 2550 meters as a miniature to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying 4 to 9, more or less erect, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, decreasing in size towards the apex leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, 2 to 12" [5 to 30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, the lower ones longer the flowers floral bracts and carrying small, suberect to curved outwards, all green flowers.
Synonyms Habenaria cardiochila Kraenzl. 1892; Habenaria combusta Ridl. 1886; Habenaria rendlei Rolfe 1898; Roeperocharis camerunensis Szlach. & Olszewski 1998; Roeperocharis combusta (Ridl.) Schltr. 1915; Roeperocharis peristyloides (A.Rich.) Schltr. 1915; Roeperocharis rendlei (Rolfe) Kraenzl. 1901; Roeperocharis ukingensis Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 14: 270 A Rich 1840;
J. Bot. 24: 294 Ridley 1886 as H combusta
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 144 Kraenzlin 1892 as H cardiochila;
Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 213 Rolfe 1898 as H rendlei;
Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 926 Kraenzlin 1901 as Roeperocharis rendlei
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 520 Schlechter 1915 as Roeperocharis peristyloides;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 520 Schlechter 1915 as Roeperocharis cardiochila;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 520 Schlechter 1915as Roeperocharis combusta;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 520 Schlechter 1915as Roeperocharis ukingensis
Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 as Habenaria peristyloides ;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as Habenaria rendelii;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 as Habenaria peristyloides;
Fl. Cameroun 23: 224 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 as Roeperocharis camerunensis
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 as Habenaria peristyloides;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 294Szlatchetko 2010 as Roeperocharis peristyloides drawing good;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 295 Szlatchetko 2010 as Roeperocharis camerunensis drawing good;
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