Habenaria bougainvilleae Renz 1987

TYPE Collection Sheet by © Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name The Bougainville Habenaria [Part of the Solomon Islands]

Flower Size

Found in the Solomon Islands in primary rain forests at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 5 to 8, scattered in the lower half of the stem, suberect, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, narrowing towards the base, pale green with darker green longitudinal striped leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 16" [40 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying strongly fragrant flowers with lanceolate, shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Pl. Syst. Evol. 155: 326 Renz 1987

Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991

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