Habenaria cultrata A.Rich. 1850 SECTION Cultratae Kraenzl. TYPE for the section

Plant and Flowers in situ Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

EARLY

Common Name The Knife-Shaped Leaf Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen and Oman in grasslands near permanent water or in shade of bushes amongst rocks at elevations of 1700 to 2100 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, leafy throughout stem carrying 5 to 9, the middlemost, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, the lowermost smaller and bract-like, uppermost decreasing smaller leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, 4 to 6.4" [10 to 16 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to oblanceolate, shorter than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying sometimes cleistogamous flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004 photo fide

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