Habenaria retinervis Summerh. 1962 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.
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Common Name The Net Nerved Habenaria
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi and Zambia in grassy clearings in woodlands or at the margins at elevations around 1000 to 1740 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a globose, ellipsoid to ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, stem carrying 7 to 11, the lowermost white with dark green reticulation, sheathing, the next few semi-erect, lanceolate, the uppermost grading into the bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 10.4" [10 to 17 cm] long, fairly laxly 8 to 30 flowered inflorescence with scarious, shorter than the ovaries floral bracts.
"This species resembles in some respects H compta but differ in the length of the posterior petals lobes, stigmophore and rostellophores. In H retinervis the posterior petals lobes are .38 to .46" [9.5 to 11.5 mm long and stigmophores and rostellophores .16" [4 mm] long. In h compta the posterior petals lobes are .22 to .24" [ 55. to 6 m] and stigmophores and rostellophores are only .08 to .132" [2 to 3.3 mm]." Szlatchecko etal 2010
Synonyms Bilabrella retinervis (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Kew Bull. 16: 291 Summerhayes 1962
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998;
Richardiana 3: 142 Szlach 2003 as Bilabrella retinervis
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 222 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella retinervis drawing ok
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