Habenaria uncinata Szlach. & Olszewski 1998SECTION Ceratopetalae Kranzl.

Drawing by © Margonska 2010

Part Shade Cool LATE Fall

Common Name The Uncinata Habenaria [Refers to the uncinate spur]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire at elevations above 1200 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a robust, erect, glabrous, leafy throughout stem carrying 13, broadly lanceoalte to ovate-lanceoalte, acute, slightly recurved, decreasing in size up the stem leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, [to 34 cm] long, cylindrical densely 60 flowered inflorescence with thin, densely pubescent outside and along the the margins, a bit longer than half as longa s the ovary floral bracts and carrying relatively small flowers.

" H stenorhynchos is similar in the small flowes but H uncinata has a .8 to 1" [20 to 25 mm] long, uncinate spur, shorter lobes of the petals and the pedicelis shorter than the ovary." Szlatchecko etal 2010

Synonyms Ceratopetalorchis uncinata (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach., Górniak & Tukallo 2003

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Cameroun 34: 160 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998;

Richardiana 3: 162 Szlach., Górniak & Tukallo 2003 as Ceratopetalorchis uncinata

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 268 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Ceratopetalorchis uncinata

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