Habenaria diselloides Schltr. 1915 SECTION Replicatae

Collection sheet and photo by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATER EARLIER

Common Name The ? Habenaria

Flower Size small

Found in Malawi and Tanzania around seepage rocks and gravel workings at elevations around 1700 to 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with globose to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, densely leafy stem carrying 7 to 12, lowermost 3, white with green reticulation, sheath-like, the next 7 to 8, semi erect, close set, lanceolate to linear, acute, conduplicate, grading shorter and narrower above leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal, erect, 1.8 to 3.6" [4.5 to 9 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Bilabrella diselloides (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 513 Schlechter 1915

Flora Of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968 as syn to H stoltzii;

The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing good;

Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;

Richardiana 3: 140 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella diselloides

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