Habenaria luegiana (Kras & Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl. 1893

TYPE drawing by © M. KRAS & D. L. SZLACHETKO 2008

Common Name Lueg's Habenaria [Chris Lueg, a German orchid grower and enthusiast, who provided one of us (DLSz) with materials for the study of gynostemia current]

Flower Size

Found in Natal state of South Africa at elevations around 400 meters as a medium to just large sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, glabrous stem carrying linear-lanceoalte, acute, spreading to adpressed to stem, decreasing in size upwards leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 74" [18 cm] long, laxly 25 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers.

Differs from Hab schimperiana and H riparia in the anterior petal lobes, which are twice as long as the linear-filiform posterior lobes. H luegiana is similar to H kyimbilae but differs by its pendent, not geniculate spur." Kraas & Szlach. 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Polish Bot. J. 53: 98 Kraas & Szlach. 2008 as Bilabella leugiana Drawing fide

* Orchid Rev. 122(1306, Suppl.): 39 J M H Shaw 2014

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