Habenaria physuriformis Kraenzl. 1909 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl. 1892

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Plant and Flowers in situ Liberia

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Common Name The Physurus-Like Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Gabon and Zaire in forests with a creeping rhizome, giving rise to an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 3 to 9, gathered a=towards the base or along the stem, oblanceolate, obovate, rarely lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate, spreading, petiolate base leaves and with 3 to 4, ovate-lanceolate, acute, adpressed to the stem, glabrous cauline bracts above that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 8" [3 to 20 cm] long, lax or dense, 6 to 20 flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, glabrous, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, resupinate, white, green or pinkish flowers.

Separable from all others in the genus by the presence of a rhizome instead of tubers.

Synonyms Habenaria buntingii Rendle 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 395 Kraenzlin 1909

Cat. Pl. Oban: 109 Rendle 1913 as H buntingii;

Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as H buntingii drawing ok;

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963 as H buntingii;

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

Flore du Gabon Vol 36 Szlachetko etal 2004 as H buntingii drawing fide;

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 137 Szlatchecko etal 2010 drawing fide

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