Habenaria cochleicalcar Bosser 1969

TYPE Drawing by © J Bosser and Adansonia, n.s., 9: 293 1969

Common Name The Curled Spur Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in southeastern Madagascar at elevation around 1500 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, simple, leafy throughout stem carrying linear lanceolate, flat, glabrous, narrowing towards both ends, the upper 2 to 3 reduced leaves and grading into bracts that blooms on an erect, terminal, simple, papillose axis, several flowered inflorescence with triveined, 1/4 shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers of unknown color.

"A very charcteristic species, distinguished by the peculiarities of its twisted spur." Bosser 1969

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Adansonia, n.s., 9: 294 Bosser 1969

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