Habenaria kyimbilae Schltr. 1915 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name The Kyimbila Habenaria [A town in Tanzania]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Zaire, Tanzania and Malawi in montane grasslands and woodlands at elevations of 1300 to 2300 meters as a giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with globose to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 6 to 11, lowermost 1 to 2, black spotted sheathing, the middle suberect, linear to lanceolate, the upper grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 2 to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Bilabrella furcipetala (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras 2006; Bilabrella kyimbilae (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Habenaria furcipetala Schltr. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 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 Volume 11 Part one Pope 1995; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella kyimbilae drawing fide

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