Habenaria calvilabris Summerh. 1962 SECTION Mirandae

Drawing © by Williamson

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

Common Name The ? Lip Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Burundi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in rainforests at elevations of 1060 to 1650 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, slender, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 5 to 10, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, acute, erect to suberect leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, 2.4 to 12" [6 to 30 cm] long, fairly densely several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying greenish white to green with a white mid lobe to the lip, and strongly scented flowers.

Synonyms Habenaria calvilabris var. crassocalcarata Geerinck 1982; Mirandorchis calvilabris (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora of Zambia Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as h calvilabris var crassocalcarata; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchenko etal 2010 as Mirandorchis calvilabris drawing fide;

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