Habenaria singularis Summerh.1966 SECTION Productae Summerh. TYPE for this section

TYPE Drawing by © Summerhhayes and Kew's Plants of the World Website

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Common Name The Singular Habenaria

Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]

Found in Zimbabwe in montane grasslands at elevations around 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing, glabrous terrestrial with a stem carrying 6 to 11, the lowermost 1 to 2, sheathlike, the middle 3 to 7, recurved, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute and the upper leaves grading into bracts that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, fairly lax, 4 to 25 flowered inflorescence

"Distinguished by the spur bent upwards about the the middle of the rostellum, then arms zigzag with the viscidium seated appreciably between the tip." Summerhayes 1966

Synonyms Renzorchis singularis (Summerh.) Olszewski & Szlach. 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Kew Bull. 20: 167 Summerhayes 1966

Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as Renzorchis psuedoplatycoryne drawing fide

Ann. Bot. Fenn. 37: 299 Olszewski & Szlach. 2000 as Renzorchis singularis

Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001

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