Habenaria walleri Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Macrurae Kraenzl.

Plant and Flowers in situPhotos by Eric La Croix and courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name Waller's Habenaria [English Missionary in East Africa 1800's]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Burundi, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in usually wet grasslands at elevations of 1100 to 1170 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 7 to 10, lowest 1 to 2 sheath-like, middle erect to semi-spreading, lanceolate, acute, erect, the uppermost grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, [3.2 to 8.8" [8 to 28 cm] long, rather laxly 2 to several flowered inflorescence with leafy, shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying showy, fragrant flowers

Synonyms Habenaria soyauxii Kraenzl. 1893; Macrura walleri (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sawicka 2003;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 photo fide; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996 photo fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Macrura walleri drawing fide

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