Habenaria keniensis Summerh. 1942 SECTION Multipartitae Kraenzl. Photo by © Hermann Meyer

Drawing Collection sheet and Drawing by © Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

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Common Name The Kenia Habenaria [refers to Mt Kenya]

Flower Size

Found around Mt Kenya in Kenya in open woodlands and upland rainforest edges at elavtions around 1950 to 2650 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrrestrial with ovoid to ellpsoid, wooly tubers giving rise to an erect, rather stout, leafy stem carrying all along the stem, 5 to 7, lowermost 1 to 2, sheath like, the rest lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size up the stem, the uppermost becoming bract-like leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, terminal, 4 to 10.8" [10 to 27 cm] long, rather lax to subdensely 6 to 32 flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, lanceolate, acuminate, as long or longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying suberect, green and white flower.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 10 1968 photo fide; Flora of East Africa Vol 1 Summerhayes 1968; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 photo fide; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide;

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