Habenaria macrostele Summerh. 1937
SECTION Replicatae Kranzl 1892
Plant In Situ Zimbabwe Photos by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
LATER
EARLY 
Common Name The Large Column Habenaria
Flower Size 1/2" [1.3 cm]
Found in Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in wet seepage zones on overlying rock in montane grasslands at elevations of 1500 to 2180 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing, slender terrestrial with linear to narrowly lanceolate leaves all along the stem that blooms in later summer and early fall on a lax, successively many flowered inflorescence with very unpleasantly scented, small flowers.
Synonyms Bilabrella macrostele (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Habenaria defleurii Geerinck 1996 publ. 1997; Habenaria tangheana Geerinck 1987; Habenaria tournayana Geerinck 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as H tournayana; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella macrostele drawing good
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