Habenaria bonateoides Ponsie 2007
Photo by © Karl Senghas
Collection shet and drawings of Bonatea tentaculifera by © Summerhayes
Common Name The Bonatea-Like Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Kenya and Tanzania at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy throughout stem carrying 7 or more, middle ones lanceolate-elliptic, shortly acuminate, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, cylindrical, to 10" [25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Bonatea tentaculifera Summerh. 1949
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kew Bull. 4: 431 Summerhayes 1949 as Bonatea tentaculifera
Flora Of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as Bonatea tentaculifera;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart &Campbell 1996 as Bonatea tentaculifera;
* S. African J. Bot. 73: 20 Ponsie 2007
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