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

Common Name The White Haired Habenaria

Flower Size .85" [2.2 cm cm]

Found in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in woodlands often on rocky soils at elevations of 900 to 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to a hairy stem with a single basal, adpressed to the ground, cordate, silvery green with dark green veining, the upper surface covered with scattered hairs and 2 to 3 bract like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 1.2 to 4" [3 to 10 cm] long, densely 3 to 12 flowered inflorescence with whitish green, densely hairy floral bracts and carrying suberect flowers.

Synonyms Habenaria leucotricha var. recticalcar la Croix 1993; Pseudohemipilia leucotricha (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003

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 good; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998;

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