Habenaria hirsutissima Summerh. 1964 SECTION Diphyllae
TYPE Drawing by © Summerhayes
Holotype Collection sheet by © Figueriredo Gomes e Sousa and Plants of the World Online WebSite
LATER 
Common Name The Hairiest Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in northern Mozambique in open forests as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to globose tubers giving rise to a hairy stem carrying hairy, basal, adpressed to the ground, orbicular, cordate, glabrous above and below, densely hairy margined leaf that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, few to several flowered inflorescence with 3, triangular, adpressed to the stem, distant, hairy bracts and smaller, similar, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Very similar to H leucotricha but differs in the hairy petals amd lip and the anterior petal lobe is patent or ascending and not reflexed, The anther is shorter and the canals are relatively longer than in H leucotricha.
Synonyms Pseudohemipilia hirsutissima (Summerh.) Szlach. 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 17: 521 Summerhayes 1964 drawing fide
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 216 Szlach 2003 as Pseudohemipilia hirsutissima
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