Habenaria robusta Welw. ex Rchb.f. 1867 SECTION Replicatae
TYPE Drawing by © Welwitsch and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name The Robust Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Angola among brushwood as a giant sized terrestrial with an erect, robust, densely leafy stem carrying numerous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, suberect, decreasing in size up the stem leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, to 16" [40 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence carrying relatively small flowers.
"Similar to H procera but with a simple linear-ligulate lip." Rchb.f 1867
Synonyms Bilabrella robusta (Welw. ex Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1979;
Richardiana 3: 142 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella robusta
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 213 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella robusta drawing fide
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