Habenaria burtii Summerhayes 1962 SECTION Replicatae

Holotype Collection Sheet and Drawing by © B D Burt

Part Shade Cool EARLY Summer

Common Name Burt's Habenaria [English Original Collector of the type 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in central Tanzania in seasonally wet bogs at elevations arouns 1250 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, slende to rather stout, leafy sthroughout stem carrying 5 to 6, , lowest not seen, the middle 2 to 3 erect to suberect, linear, the upper ones lanceoalte, acuminate, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, 4 to 12" [10 to 20 cm] long, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acuminateusually shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying outward curving, green flowers with white petals.

Synonyms Bilabrella burtii [Summerhayes] Szlach & Kras.-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bulletin 16: 275 Summerhayes 1962;

Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1: 99 Summerhayes

Richardiana 3: 13 Szlach & Kras-Lap 2003

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