Habenaria robbrechtiana Geerinck & Schaijes 1987 SECTION Diphyllae

HOLOTYPE Collection sheet w/ Drawing and Photo by © Geerinck & Schaijes and Kew's Plants of the World Webpage

Common Name Robbrecht's Habenaria

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cmm]

Found in southern Zaire in open woodlands as a miniature sized terrestrial with an ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, delicate, long white hairy stem carrying a single, ovate-orbicular, basally cordate, acute, fairly densely long white hairy above, margins densely ciliate leaf with 1 to 2 cauline bracts above that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, single flowered inflorescence carrying a relatively large white flower.

Synonyms Pseudohemipilia robbrechtiana (Geerinck & Schaijes) Szlach. 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 57: 481 Geerinck & Schaijes 1987

Orchidee (Hamburg) 57: 48 Szlach 2006 as Pseudohemipilia robbrechtiana

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 191 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Pseudohemipilia robbrechtiana drawing fide

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