Habenaria letouzeyana (Szlach. & Olszewski) P.J.Cribb & Stévart 2004 SECTION Podrandria [Rolfe] Hunt 1968

Drawing by © Kowalkowska

Common Name Letouze's Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Prinipe islands in primary forests at elevations up to 600 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a rather delicate, erect, glabrous stem carryiung 6, clustered in the basal part of the stem. erect to spread, canaliculate, narrow obovate to oblanceolate, acuminate petiolate base leaves with 5 cauline bracts above that blooms in the winter in an erect, erminal, 10.4 to 12.4" [31 to 36 cm] long, rather lax, 15 to 25 flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous , shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying widely opening, middle sized flowers.

"Closey related to H macranda but dostinguished by the much smaller flowers with shorter flower segments and is 2 to 4 times shorter that the anther." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Podandriella letouzeyana Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

References W3 Tropicos,,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1931: 380 Summerhayes 1931

Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 219 2003 as Schlechterorchis snowdenii

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 168 Szlach etal 2010 as Schlechterorchis snowdenii

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