Habenaria insolita Summerh. 1962 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl
Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
Drawing by © Mary Grierson
Common Name The Uncommon Habenaria [refers to it's rarity in nature]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Tanzania and Malawi in long grass at edges of woodlands at elevations of 1800 to 1900 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with about 10, lower 2 to 3 sheathing, upper 3 bract-like the rest erect, broadly lanceolate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the early fall on an erect, 4.8 to 7.2" [12 to 18 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with prominent, lanceolate, acute, longer than the flower floral bracts.
Synonyms Trachypetalum insolitum (Summerh.) Szlach. & Sawicka 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 16: 259 Summerhayes 1962
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one: 71 Pope 1995 Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one: 72 Pope 1995 drawing fide;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 90 Szlach. & Sawicka 2003 as Trachypetalum insolitum
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