Bonatea volkensiana (Kraenzl.) Rolfe 1898 Collection sheet by © P. R. O. Bally and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Volken's Bonatea

Flower Size

Found in southwestern Kenya and Tanzania in bush and rocky grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 2400 meters as a small to large sized, cool to cold growing terresrial with several, spreading, irregularily cylindrical to fusiform, tomentose tubers giving rise t oan erect, slender to rather stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 10 to 16, lowest 2 sheath-like, spreading to suberect, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, lower and upper smaller leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, cylindrical, 1.6 to 7.2" [4 to 18 cm] long, rather dense, 3 to 25 flowered inflorescence with thin, leafy, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying green to green and white flowers.

Synonyms *Habenaria volkensiana Kraenzl. 1894

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #4 1975; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell1996;

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