Habenaria egregia Summerh. 1949 SECTION Multipartitae Kraenzl Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Outstanding Habenaria

Flower Size 2.8" [7" cm]

Found in Cameroon, Ethiopia and Kenya in bushy meadows with rocky outcrops and in bamboo thickets in shade at elevations of 1500 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, stout leafy stem carrying sub-erect to spreading, ovate leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, laxly 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts and carrying very large, showy, sweetly fragrant flowers

Synonyms Kryptostoma egregium (Summerh.) Szlach. 1995; Ochyrorchis egregia (Summerh.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 photo fide; Orchids of Kenya Stewart and Campbell 1996; Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004 drawing/photo fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchetko etal 2010 as Ochyrorchis egregia drawing fide

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