Habenaria burtii Summerhayes 1962 SECTION Replicatae

Holotype Collection Sheet and Drawing by © B D Burt

EARLY

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.

"This rather attractive little species is cheifly charaterized by the upcurved spur which is very slender in the lower part and widened towards the apex to form a club-shapoed swelling. The very spreading flowers with markedly arcuate ovaries and pedicels provide another striking feature of the species. It is clearly allied to H haareri from which ity may be distinguished by the more open flowers, pedicels with shorter ovaries, smaller flowers, the calyx very recurved upwards, and the anther canals quite shorter. Summerhayes 1962

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

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 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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