Habenaria montolivaea Kraenzl. ex Engl. 1892 SECTION PseudoperistylusTYPE Drawing and collection sheetz and © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Warm 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, warm 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 200

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rassmusen 2005;

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