Habenaria huillensis Rchb.f. 1865 SECTION Replicatae
Photo by © Bob Campbell
Drawing by © Margonska
TYPE Drawing of Habenaria kubangensis
TYPE Drawing of Habenaria kubangensis by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name The Huille Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, Angola and Zimbabwe in grasslands at elevations of 1200 to 2700 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an ellipsoid to ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying 4 to 16, lowermost 1 to 3, white with green venation, sheathing, middle ones, erect, linear, grading into bracts above, adpressed leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 2.4" to 10.8" [6 to 27 cm] long, 6 to many flowered inflorescence with thin, lower ones longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter stated that the flowers are green to yellowish green with whitish centers.
Synonyms Bilabrella huillensis (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Bilabrella kubangensis (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Bilabrella urundiensis (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras 2009; Habenaria kubangensis Schltr. 1903; Habenaria urundiensis Summerh. 1962;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
O.Warburg (ed.), Kunene-Sambesi Exped.: 205 Schlechter 1903 as Habenaria kubangensis
Kew Bull. 16: 301 Summerhayes 1962 as Habenaria urundiensis
Kew Bull. 16: 302 Summerhayes 1962 as Habenaria urundiensis drawing fide
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide;
Orchids of the Central African Republic A Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1986;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide;
Richardiana 3: 140 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella huillensis;
Richardiana 3: 141 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella kubangensis;
Richardiana 9: 159 Szlach. & Kras 2009 as Bilabrella urundiensis
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 234 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella huillensis drawing fide;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 237 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella kubangensis drawing fide
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