Habenaria cultriformis Kraenzl. 1893 SECTION Cultratae Kraenzl.

Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Knife-Shaped Leaf Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Yemen in grasslands and open bushlands at elevations of 1100 to 2200 meters as a small to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy throughout stem carrying lanceolate, the uppermost decreasing smaller bract-like leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, 7.2" [to 18 cm] long, densely few to many flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate mostly longer than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying sweetly scented flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 89 Kraenzlin 1892

Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004

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