Habenaria distantiflora A.Rich. 1847 SECTION Chlorinae Kraenzl. Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

EARLY

Common Name The Laxly Flowered Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and Yemen in upland grasslands among bracken at elevations of 2000 to 3800 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 4 to 7, very unequal, 1 to 2 basal, lanceolate-oblong, grading smaller above to bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, slender, to 6.4" [16 cm] long, rather lax, to 20 flowered inflorescence with longer than the flowers, black apically floral bracts carrying flowers in a single spiral row.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004

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