Habenaria microceras Hook.f. 1864

Plant and Flowers in situ Gabon

Photos by © Vincent Droissart and © The Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website

Drawing

Drawing by © Margonska/Szlach etal 2010

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Common Name The Tiny Horned Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Bioko, the Gulf Guinea Islands and southwestern Cameroon at elevations of 1500 to 3000 metrs as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte on mossy tree trunks with 1 to 2, oblong to ovoid, subterranean tubers giving rise to an erect, glabrous, rather stout stem carrying 7 to 8, sessile,to subsessile, lanceolate to oblanceolate, decreasing in size up the stem leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, 2 to 5.2" [5 to 13 cm] long, lax below, more dense above, 20 to 30 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, herbaceous, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying more or less spirally arranged green to yellowish green flowers.

"Closely related to H petitiana but differs in the lip shape." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Montolivaea microceras (Hook.f.) Szlach. 2001; Peristylus preussii (Kraenzl.) Rolfe 1898; Platanthera preussii Kraenzl. 1893; Pseudoperistylus microceras (Hook.f.) Szlach. & Olszewski 1998

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 7: 221 Hooker 1864

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 63 Kraenzlin 1893 as Platanthera preussii

Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 199 Rolfe 1898 as Peristylus preussii

Fl. Cameroun 34: 212 Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 as Pseudoperistylus microceras

Polish Bot. J. 46: 129 Szlach 2001 as Montolivaea microcera

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 285 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Montolivaea microceras drawing fide

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