Habenaria quartiniana A.Rich. 1840 SECTION Multipartitae
Drawing by © Charlemagne Théophile Lefebvre
Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name Quartin's Habenaria [R. Quartin Dillon French Orchid Collector in east Africa early 1800's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]
Found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya in upland grasslands and edges of upland rainforests often amongst rocks at elevations of 2000 to 2600 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying 5 to 7, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 2.6" to 9.2" [7 to 23 cm] long, rather lax, 6 to 20 flowered inflorescence with acute, longer than the flower floral bracts and carrying outwardly curved flowers
Synonyms Habenaria anisoptera Rchb.f. 1881; Kryptostoma quartinianum (A.Rich.) Szlach. 1995; Ochyrorchis quartiniana (A.Rich.) Szlach 2004; Platanthera quartiniana (A.Rich.) Engl. 1892
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 14: 271 A Rich 1840
Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 101 Rchb.f 1881 as H anisoptera
Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1891: 179 Engl. 1892 as Platanthera quartiniana
Fragm. Florist. Geobot., Suppl. 3: 114 Szlach. 1995 as Kryptostoma quartinianum
Richardiana 4: 55 Szlach. 2004 as Ochyrorchis quartiniana
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 drawing fide;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;
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