Habenaria genuflexa Rendle 1895 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl
Photo by © Fredric Melki
Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website
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Common Name The Kneeling Habenaria [refers to the bent pedicel]
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Found in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Benin, Ghana, Togo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Zambia in wet or swampy grasslands at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid to ellipsoid tuber giving rise to a leafy, erect stem carrying 7 to 11, lowermost mostly sheathing, the next 4 to 6, semi-erect to spreading, linear to lanceolate upper most bract-like leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, to 2 to 10.8" [5 to 27 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying foul smelling flowers
This species and H schimperiana are often combined with this one taking precedence, I have left them separate pending better references and photos, but at this point I can say that H genuflex has much wider petals and is not hairy to erose margined in any parts, otherwize they are very similar
Synonyms Bilabrella confusa Szlach. & Kras 2009; Bilabrella genuflexa (Rendle) Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2003; Habenaria confusa Rolfe 1898; Habenaria stenoloba Schltr. 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Orchids of the Central African Republic A Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1986; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Flore du Gabon Vol 36 Szlachetko etal 2004 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella genuflexa drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella genuflexa drawing fide
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