Habenaria phantasma la Croix 1993 SECTION Podrandria [Rolfe] Hunt 1968
Photos by Murielle Simo-Droissart and Her West African Orchid Website
Drawing by Margonska
Common Name or Meaning The Ghostly Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in the Congo at elevations around 500 metrs as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with an erect slender stem carrying 3 to 7, basally clustered, spreading, obliquely oblanceolate, acute, undulate margins, dark green above, paler beneath, canaliculate into the petiolate base leaves with 2 to 3 cauline leaves above that blooms on an erect, terminal, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, rather laxly 4 to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers
"This species has the shortest spur and gynostemium within the section Podrandria. Additionally its lip lobes are distinctly twisted." Szlatchecko etal 2010
Synonyms Podandriella phantasma (la Croix) Szlach. & Olszewski 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Kew Bull. 48: 369 la Croix 1993
Fl. Cameroun 34: 198 Szlach & Olszewski 1998 as Podandriella phantasma
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 197 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Podandriella phantasma drawing fide
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