Habenaria hologlossa Summerh.1958 SECTION Chlorinae Kraenzl Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name The One Part Lip Habenaria [Lip has no side lobes]

Flower Size

Found in Kenya, Angola and Malawi in wet montane grasslands at elevations of 1900 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an ellipsoid tuber giving rise to a leafy erect stem carrying 4 to 7, lowermost 1 to 2 mostly sheathing, the others linear, whitish, with dark green reticulation on the leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect laxly 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovaries floral bracts

Synonyms Habenella hologlossa (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides hologlossa (Summerh.) Szlach.2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998 photo fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Habenella hologlossa drawing fide

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