Habenaria bertauxiana Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.
Drawing and Collecton Sheet By Szlach. & Olszewski
EARLY 
Common Name Bertaux's Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Congo at lower elevations as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, rather stout, glabrous stem carrying 8, lanceoalte, acute, erect to suberect, decreasing in size above leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, rather lax [18 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence with ciliolate along the margin, minutely glandular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts
"Habenaria bertauxiana appears to be similar to H. retinervis from which it differs in length of floral bracts (.48" vs .4 to 1" [12 mm vs 10-25 mm]), which are ciliolate along margins, minutely glandular outside (vs glabrous) and relatively massive stigmaphores which are ciliate (vs slender, minutely papillate). According to Szlachetko et al. (2010) B. bertauxiana can be related to H. haareri from which it differs in the form of anterior petal lobe, in having spur longer than pedicellate ovary, and antherophores longer than stigmaphores." Kras, Oledrzynska and Szlachetko 2018
Synonyms Bilabrella bertauxiana (Szlach. & Olsz.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Fl. Cameroun 34: 178 Szlach & Olszewski 1998 drawing fide
Richardiana 3: 139 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella bertauxiana
Biodiv. Res. Conserv. 51: 128, Kras, a Oledrzynskaand Szlachetko 2018 as Bilabrella bertauxiana
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