Habenaria kilimanjari Rchb.f. 1881 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl. TYPE for the section Photos by © Colleen Mannheimer and Benny Bytebier and The Scielo South Africa Website

Drawing Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation At the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Mt Kilamanjaro Habenaria

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia and Angola in seasonally flooded grasslands at elevations of 90 to 200 and 2400? meters as a small to large sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, slender to rather stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 7 to 13, spreading, linear to narrowly lanceolate, grading smaller towards the apex leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 1.6 to 14.8" [4 to 37 cm] long, lax to dense, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Bilabrella kilimanjari (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Bilabrella lutaria (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Bilabrella martialis (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras 2009; Habenaria lutaria Schltr. 1915; Habenaria martialis Rchb.f. 1881; Habenaria theodorii Kraenzl. 1929; Habenaria uhligii Kraenzl. 1909

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella kilimanjari drawing fide

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