Habenaria snowdenii Summerh. 1931 SECTION Plantagineae

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Common Name Snowden's Habenaria [original Collector of the species later 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in northern Uganda at elevations around 1260 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with tubers giving rise to an erect, delicate pubescent stem carrying 1 to 2, basal, radical, orbicular, deep green above, paler beneath, ciliate on margins, apiculate, cordate base leaf with 3 to 4 cauline, bracts above that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, .6 to 2.4" [1.5 to 6 cm] long, densely 6 to 11 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, pubescent, , shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, yellow to yellowish-green flowers.

"This species is very similar to H. villosa and H. aberrans , both of which have inverted flowers with the same general construction, and hairy sepals, inflorescence and leaf. When Schlechter described H. aberrans as an aberrant species with no near relative he obviously overlooked Rolfe's species, since the two are very closely allied." Summerhayes 1931

Synonyms Schlechterorchis snowdenii (Summerh.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1931: 380 Summerhayes 1931

Flora of Afrique Central orchid 1: 60 Geerinck 1984

Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 219 2003 as Schlechterorchis snowdenii

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 168 Szlach etal 2010 as Schlechterorchis snowdenii

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