Habenaria harmsiana Schltr.1915 SECTION Ceratopetalae Kraenzl

Plant and Flowers in situ Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name Harms' Habenaria

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia in boggy grasslands at elevations of 650 to 1200 meters as a medium to just large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid to ellipsoid, woolly tubers giving rise to a leafy erect stem carrying 7 to 12, lowermost 1 to 2 mostly sheathing, the next 4 to 6, sub-erect, lanceolate, the upper grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, to 2 to 11" [5 to 28 cm] long, 2 to 25 flowered inflorescence carrying scented flowers

Synonyms Ceratopetalorchis harmsiana (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998;

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