Habenaria compta Summerh. 1962 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.
Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Drawing by © Mary Grierson/Pope 1995
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Common Name The ? Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Angola? and Zambia in marshes at elevations around 1500 to 1680 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a leafy throughout stem carrying 7 to 9, linear, acute, grading into bracts above leaves that blooms in the later winter on a terminal, erect, 2.8 to 5.2" [7 to 13 cm] long, lax to dense, several to many flowered inflorescence with finely reticulate, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale green flowers.
Closely related to H huillensis but differs in the smaller flowers and shorter incurved antherophores
The bloom time of later winter is unusual for the Habenaria in Zambia and Angola.
Similar to H huilensis and H stolzii but differs from H huilensis in the smaller flowers and the shorter, incurved anther canals and from H stolzii in the smaller flowers, The petal that has an elongated anterior partition, almost twice as long as the posterior one, and the longer spur that slightly inflated.
Synonyms Bilabrella compta (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 16: 276 Summerhayes 1962
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing good;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Orchidoideae [Part one] Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing fide;
Richardiana 3: 139 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella compta
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 223 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella compta drawing good
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