Habenaria weberiana Schltr. 1915 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.
Photos/Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Common Name Weber's Habenaria
Flower Size .65" [1.65 cm]
Found in Zaire, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in wet grasslands at elevations of 850 to 1620 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with globose to ellipsoid, sparsely hairy tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 6 to 13, lowest few sheath-like, middle 2 to 7, sub-erect, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, 3 prominently veined, uppermost grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, to 12 " [to 30 cm] long, rather laxly to fairly densely several to many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying foul smelling flowers
Similar to H sochenis but with much narrower leaves and different proportions to the floral parts." Schlechter 1015
Synonyms Bilabrella weberiana (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Habenaria huillensis var. weberiana (Schltr.) Geerinck 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 516 Schlechter 1915
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok;
Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 52: 343 Geerinck 1982 as H huillensis var. weberiana
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996;
Richardiana 3: 143 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella weberiana
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 237 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella weberiana drawing fide
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