Habenaria boiviniana Kraenzl. & Schltr. 1897 SECTION Pentaceras [Thou] Schlechter 1915
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Drawing by © Schlechter and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Common Name Boivin's Habenaria [French Orchid Collector in Madagascar late 1800's early 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Kenya, Tanzania, the Comoros and Madagascar in semi deciduous forests, humid evergreen forests or on rocks in woods at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with ovoid to elliptic, densely tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, slender to rather stout, leafy nearly the base stem carrying 5 to 11, spreading, the lowermost 2 bract-like, the middle ones obovate, acute, narrowing basally, the uppermost 2 to 3 are lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the flowers floral bracts.
CAUTION The drawing above has 2 species names which both are now considered to be synonyms of H boiviniana.
Synonyms Habenaria nigricans Schltr. 1913; Habenaria perrieri Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Specierum Nova. Regni Vegetabilis Band 33 Schlechter 1925 as H nigricans; Repert. Specierum Nova. Regni Vegetabilis Band 33 Schlechter 1925 as H perrieri; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 as Habenaria nigricans; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 as Habenaria perrieri drawing fide; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939; Flora of Tropical East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968 as H perrier; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 as H perrieri; Orchids of Madagascar Du Puy, Hermans, Cribb & Bosser 2007; A Field Guide to the orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
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