Habenaria edgarii Summerh.1942 SECTION Diphyllae Kraenzl Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name Edgar's Habenaria

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Zaire, Tanzania and Zambia in wet dambos, tall grasslands and woodlands at elevations of 1500 to 1750 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect leafy stem carrying 2 basal, reniform, apiculate or rounded basally, adpressed to the ground becoming bract-like above leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, laxly 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with floral bracts that are much shorter than the ovaries

Synonyms Arachnaria edgarii (Summerh.) Szlach. 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2002 Photo fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Arachnaria edgarii drawing fide

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