Habenaria bathiei Schltr. 1924 SECION Bilabrella
Photo by © P J Cribb and Arkive Website
Drawing by © Schlechter
Common Name Bathie's Habenaria [Perrier de Bathie, French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]
Flower Size .56" [1.4 cm]
Found in central and south eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests, highland savannahs and secondary grasslands at elevations around 800 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 5 fusiform-elongate tubers giving rise to a glabrous, very densely leafy stem carrying many, flat upright, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, acute leaves gradually grading into bracts up the stem that blooms in the summer on an erect, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, cylindrical, many flowered inflorescence;
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Specierum Nova. Regni Vegetabilis Band 33: 89 Schlechter 1925;
Bluetenanalysen neuer Orchideen, III. Afrikanische und madegassische Orchideen R. Schlechter 1932 drawing fide;
Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide;
Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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