Habenaria cavatibrachia Summerh. 1942 SECTION Multipartitae

Drawing and Collection sheet by © Mainwaring and The Kew Database Website

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Common Name The Hollow Branched Stigma Habenaria

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya in montane grasslands on rocky, grassy slopes at elevations of 2100 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a rather slender, erect, loosely leafy stem carrying 4 to 7, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, shortly acuminate, decreasing in size towards the apex leaves that blooms in the spring through earlier summer on a terminal, erect, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying pale green flowers.

Similar to H tricruris and H aethiopica but differs in the longer spur that is at least 4.4" [11 cm] instead of the 3.2" [8 cm] spur of the two mentioned.

Synonyms Kryptostoma cavatibrachia (Summerh.) Olszewski & Szlach. 2000; Ochyrorchis cavatibrachia (Summerh.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 273 Summerhayes 1942

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;

Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;

Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996;

Ann. Bot. Fenn. 37: 299 Olszewski & Szlach. 2000 as Kryptostoma cavatibrachia;

Richardiana 4: 53 Szlach 2004 as Ochyrorchis cavatibrachia

Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004 drawing fide;

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