Habenaria macrotidion Summerh. 1962 SECTION Replicatae
Photos © by Nicholas Wightman and The Flora of Zambia Website
Drawing © by Mary Grierson
Common Name The Large ? Habenaria
Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]
Found in Zambia in swamy grasslands at elevations around 1050 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 6 to 8, lowermost 1 to 2 sheathing, the next 3 to 5, suberect, linear-lanceolate, acute, the uppermost becoming bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 4 to 6.4" [10 to 16 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale green, erect to spreading flowers
"Closely related to H chirensis but differs in the much shorter spur and the glabrous interior lobe of the petals." Szlachetko etal 2010
Synonyms Bilabrella macrotidion (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Kew Bull. 16: 285 Summerhayes 1962
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;
Flora of Zambia Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide;
Richardiana 3: 141 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella macrotidion;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 226 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella macrotidion
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