Habenaria ugandensis Summerh. 1962SECTION Replicatae
Collection sheet by © E M Lind and Kew Royal Botanical Garden Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by VS Summerhayes and JSTOR Website
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Common Name The Ugandan Habenaria
Flower Size .58" [1.4 cm]
Found in Uganda in grassy swamps at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, densely tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, rather stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 11 to 12, lowermost 1 to 2 sheath-like, the middle 6 to 7, suberect, ovate to lanceolate, acute, the uppermost lanceolate, grading smaller into the lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts that blooms in the later spring on a a terminal, erect, to more than 12" [to more than 30 cm] long, rather loosely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-acuminate shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers with brown veins
"This species is characterized by the rather thin leaves, the rather long incurved spur and the distinct stalk to the anther. It differs from H. ndiana and H. macrostele which both have a stalked anther, in the longer anther canals." Summerhayes 1962 anth
Synonyms Bilabrella ugandensis (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Kew Bull. 16: 299 Summerhayes 1962
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
Richardiana 3: 143 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella ugandensis
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