Habenaria cribbiana Szlach. & Olszewski 1998SECTION Replicatae

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Common Name Cribb's Habenaria [English Botanist current]

Flower Size

Found in the Congo in flooded vegetation at elevations below 300 meters as a just medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 7, linear, acute, spread, the oppermost one sheathlike, second the longest, decreading in size up the stem that blooms in the summer winter on an erect, terminal, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, to 6 flowered inflorescence with hairy on both sides, half as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"Related to H huillensis but distinguished by the spur swollen near the apex, , the floral bracts equal in length to the pedicel and the anterior petal lobe lanceolate, and about 4 times longer than wide. . Another closely allied species is H cornutella , but H cribbiana is diistinguished by the spur as longa s the pedicel and ovary with the anterior petal lobe 4 times longer than wide and bifid auricles in the apical half. B cornutella has a spur shorter than the pedicel and ovary, the anterior petal lobe is 8 times longert than wide and has globose auricles." Szlach. etal 2010

Synonyms Bilabrella kornasiorum (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Cameroun 34: 184 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

Richardiana 3: 140 Szlach. & Kras 2003 as Bilabrella kornasiorum;

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 231 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella decaptera drawing fide;

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