Habenaria montolivaea Kraenzl. ex Engl. 1892 SECTION Pseudoperistylus

TYPE Drawing and collection sheetz © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Cool cold Summer

Common Name The Mount of Olives Habenaria [Type locality within Ethiopia]

Flower Size

Found only in Ethiopia in open grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 2600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a leafy throughout stem carrying 4 to 7, basal 3 spreading, obovate, grading smaller above to bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, subdensely to densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, lowermost often longer than the flowers floral bracts.

Synonyms *Montolivaea elegans Rchb.f. 1881; Peristylus albidulus Chiov. 1911; Pseudoperistylus montolivaea (Kraenzl. ex Engl.) Szlach. & Olszewski 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 107 Rchb.f 1881 as Montolivaea elegans

* Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1891: 183 Kraenzlin ex Engl. 1892

Ann. Bot. (Rome) 9: 137 Chiov. 1911 as Peristylus albidulus

Ann. Bot. Fenn. 37: 312 Szlach. & Olszewski 2000 as Pseudoperistylus montolivaea

Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rassmusen 2005;

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