Habenaria coeloglossoides Summerh. 1942 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl. 1892

Drawing by © Stanffer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria WebSite

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Common Name The Coeloglossum Like Habenaria

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Found in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda in upland grassslands at elevations around 2500 to 3600 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with rather flexuous stems carrying 4 to 7, scatttered, lowest 1 to 2 sheath-like, middle ones, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, lower ones equal to, to longer than the flowers.

Most like H obovata in habit and flower. and the sepals and petals are very similar to H epipactidea but the column and lip structure are very different.

Synonyms Kryptostoma coeloglossoides (Summerh.) Szlach. 1995; Pseudocoeloglossum coeloglossoides (Summerh.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 261 Summerhayes 1942

Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part I Summerhayes 1968;

Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;

Fragm. Florist. Geobot., Suppl. 3: 114 Szlach 1995 as Kryptostoma coeloglossoides

Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 335 Szlach 2003 as Pseudocoeloglossum coeloglossoides

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Pseudocoeloglossum coeloglossoides drawing fide

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