Habenaria keayi Summerh. 1951 SECTION Diphyllae
Photos by © Ralph Mangelsdorff and The East African Plants Website
Photo by © IKOUKOMON Abdou-Chérifou and The iNaturalist Website
TYPE Drawing by © Summerhayes and The Kew Science Website
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Common Name Keay's Habenaria [English Orchid Collector 1900's]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Togo, Benin, Nigeria Cameroon, Ethiopia, Yemen and Oman in grasslands at elevations around 500 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 basal, heart shaped, glaucous green, reticulate, hairy leaves in youth, one as a mature plant that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long, 8 to 17 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, pubescent floral bracts and carrying green flowers with hairy tepals
Similar to H holothrix but H keayi has a longer spur.
Synonyms Pseudohemipilia keayi (Summerh.) Szlach. 2003
References W3 Tropicos,, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 14: 217 Summerhayes 1951;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 216 Szlach 2003 as Pseudohemipilia keayi
Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 189 Szlach etal 2010 as Pseudohemipilia keayi
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