Habenaria anaphysema Rchb.f. 1867 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl. 1892
Collection Sheet Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
Drawing Drawing by © Graham Williamson
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Common Name The ? Habenaria
Flower Size .55" [1.4 cm]
Found in Sierra Leone?, Central African Republic, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Angola, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in swamps and seasonally flooded grasslands at elevations of 600 to 2100 meters as a slender, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, densely tomentose to nearly glabrous tubers giving rise to an erect slender, leafy throughout stem carrying 6 to 12, more or less erect, narrowly linear to linear, becoming smaller, adpressed and lanceolate up the stem leaves that blooms in the later spring and earlier summer on an erect, 2 to 9.2" [5 to 23 cm] long, rather loosely to densely 8 to 24 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, rather chaffy bracts that are shorter than the ovary and carrying half-spreading, sometimes nocturnally fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Bilabrella anaphysema (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963;
West African Lilies and Orchids Morton 1961 drawing fide;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
Orchids of the Central African Republic A Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1986;
Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella anaphysema drawing ok
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