Habenaria garayana Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Pentaceras

Drawing by © Kowalkowska

Common Name Garay's Habenaria [American Botanist 1924 - 2016]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire in open plains at elevations below 500 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, rather delicate, glabrous stem carrying 16, linear-lanceolate, acute, longer than the internodes, loosely adpressed tothe stem, the lower 4 sheath-like leavs tha blooms on an erect, to [16 cm] long, densely 25 flowered inflorescence with oblong, elliptic to oblong lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, lowermost longer than the flowers floral bracts.

"Closely related to H njamnjamica but distinguished by the glabrous lip, the spur swollen below the middle, the apex of the ovary contains embryos and does not form a long and sterile neck. H garayana is also similar to H uhehensis but differs in the lip, petals and spur details." Szlach 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Fl. Cameroun 34: 143 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 156 Szlach etal 2010 drawing fide;

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