Habenaria monadenioides Schltr. 1916 SECION Bilabrella
Photo by © Jean Michel Hervouet
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Perrier and TheSwiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Monadenium-Like Habenaria [a type of Euphorbia - succulent like plant]
Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]
Found in central Madagascar on rocky quartzite outcrops at elevations of 1400 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with an erect stem carrying 6 to 9, suberect, lanceolate, acute, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, cylindrical, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, uniformly densely many flowered inflorescence with elliptical to lanceolate-acuminate, as long as the pedicel floral bracts carrying glabrous, white flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Specierum Nova. Regni Vegetabilis Band 33 Schlechter 1925; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Du Puy, Hermans, Cribb & Bosser 2007; A Field Guide tothe Orchids of Madagascar Hermans & Cribb 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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