Habenaria humbertii Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.

HOLOTYPE Drawing by © Margonska

Part Shade LATER Spring

Common Name Humbert's Habenaria {French Orchid Collector, Africa, Madagascar and South America 1st half of the 20th century]

Flower Size

Found in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the southwestern Rwenzori Mountains in the Lume valley as a large sized terrestrial with a robust, glabrous stem carrying 13, the middle ones more or less petiolate, spread, petiole to .6" [1.5 cm] long, lanceolate, acute, the upperones erect, loosely adpressed tothe stem leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, cylindrical, to 8" [20 cm] long, about 30 flowered inflorescence with glabrous, ciliate margines, shorter than the pedicellate ovary.

Appears to be related to H macrostele but the gymnostemium is sessile, has ciliate stigmaphores and the lateral sepals are broadly ovate." Szlatchecko etal 2010

Synonyms Bilabrella humbertii (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Cameroun 34: 166 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

Richardiana 3: 140 Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2003 as Bilabrella humbertii

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 232 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella humbertii drawing fide

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