Habenaria adolphi Schltr. 1915 SECTION Diphyllae Kraenzl.

Scan and Stamp collected by © Leng and The Stamp Community Family Photo WebPage

TYPE drawing Drawing by © Schlechter

TYPE species Collection Sheet Drawing by © Schlechter and the The GBIF Website

Common Name Adolph's Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Burundi, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia in woodlands and grasslands at elevations of 1100 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with globose to ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 2, basal adpressed to the ground, broadly ovate, reniform to orbicular, cordate below into the base leaves and a few bract-like leaves above that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 1.6 to 4.8" [4 to 12 cm] long, densely 3 to 15 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bractrs and carrying cream, whitish to yellowish green colored flowers.

Schlechter puts this species similar to Habenaria mechowii

Szlachetko puts this species close to H lindblomii but H adolphii has larger flowers, distinctly longer anterior petal lobes, longer middle stigma lobe and longer stigmatophores.

Synonyms Arachnaria adolphi (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 503 Schlechter 1915

Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;

Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orchidaceae Premier parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;

Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 part 1 Pope 1995;

Richardiana 3: 156 Szlachetko 2003 as Arachnaria adolphi

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 258 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Arachnaria adolphi drawing fide

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