Habenaria goetzeana Kraenzl. 1900 SECTION Kryptostoma
Photo by Nicholas Wightman and The Flora of Malaei Website
Photo by Orchideen vereniging vlaanderen Website
Drawing by Graham Williamson
Common Name Goetze's Habenaria [original collector of species late 1800's early 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Burundi, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in rough grasslands and woodlands at elevations of 950 to 2100 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with an ovoid tuber giving rise to 5 to 9, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, 2 to 9 flowered inflorescence.
Kraenzlin compared this species to H humilior and H epipactidea but states that they are the same in general structure but differ in the spur which strangles the flower.
Synonyms Kryptostoma goetzeanum (Kraenzl.) Geerinck 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 173 Kraenzlin 1900
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 52: 149 Geerinck 1982 as Kryptostoma goetzeanum
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984;
Flora of Zambia Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as Kryptostoma goetziana;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Kryptostoma goetzeanum drawing good
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