Habenaria cataphysema Rchb.f. 1867 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.
Drawing © by Williamson
TYPE Collection Sheet by © Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Common Name The ? Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Zaire, Angola and Zambia in damp marshy places at elevations of 1250 to 1800 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with globose to ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect, rather stout, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 7 to 9, linear-lanceolate, acute, slightly deflexed from the stem, decreasing in size up the stem leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, erect, 4.4 to 9.2" [11 to 23 cm] long, fairly densely many flowered inflorescence with glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale green flowers.
"The species is easily distinguishable from other of the genus by very characteristic spur with globose apex."
Synonyms Bilabrella cataphysema (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Flora 50: 101 Rchb.f 1867
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
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;
Richardiana 3: 139 Szlach & Kras.-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella cataphysema;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchenko etal 2010 as Bilabrella cataphysema drawing fide;
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