Habenaria tsaratananensis H.Perrier 1936 publ. 1937

Collection sheet by © Kate Larce and Kew Monocot list

Full shade Winter

Common Name The Tsartatanan Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Madagascar as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect, slender stem carrying at mid stem, 8 to 10, basally clasping, linear-acuminate, largest in the middle leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, 3 to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm] long peduncle, rachis 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, few t oseveral flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Soc. Bot. France 83: 583 H Perrier 1936 publ. 1937

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