Habenaria welwitschii Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Replicatae
Photo by © E Tanner and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Margonska
Collection sheet/drawings by © Summerhayes and Kew's Plants of the World Website
Common Name Welwitsch's Habenaria [Austrian Botanist in Angola 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Mozambique in marshy locations, grasslands and in rock crevasses at elevations of 1350 to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, sparsely tomentose tuber giving rise to an erect, slender to rather stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 7 to 12, lowermost sheathlike, the middle spreading to recurved, lanceolate to linear, acute, the upper 2 to 4, much smaller, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 2.4 to 7.2" [6 to 18 cm] long, rather densely 10 to 30 flowered inflorescnece with about half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying white to greenish white flowers
Distinguished by its broad, anterior segments of the anthers as well as its long anther canals and stigma processes." Schlechter 1906
Synonyms Bilabrella welwitschii (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Habenaria keiliana Kraenzl. 1909; Habenaria leptostigma Schltr. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 38: 146 Schlechter 1906 as H leptostigma
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 393 Kraenzlin 1909 as H keiliana
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Richardiana 3: 143 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella welwitschii
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 224 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Kryptostoma tentaculigerum drawing fide
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