Habenaria alinae Szlach. 1998 SECTION Plantagineae

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Common Name Alina's Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Cameroon in submontane forests at elevations of 1700 to 1800 meteres as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with an erect, rather stout, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 12, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, spread, decreasing in size upwards, the lower 4 sheath-like leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 4" [10 cm] long, rather dense, to 25 flwoered inflorescence with oblong-ovate, acute, herbaceous, glabrous, leaf-like, longer than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Related to H prionocraspedon but distinguished by the smaller flowers, distinctly wider flower segments, a different shape to the lip and the spur as long as the pedicel abd ovary." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Plantaginorchis alinae (Szlach.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Cameroun 34: 116 Szlach. 1998

Richardiana 4: 64 Szlach. 2004 as Plantaginorchis alinae

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 166 Szlach etal 2010 as Plantaginorchis alinae

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