Habenaria ndiana Rendle 1895 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name The Ndi Habenaria

Flower Size .75" [1.8 cm]

Found in Kenya, Uganada, Tanzania and Malawi in seepage slopes among rocks or in grasslands with poor soils at elevations of 1300 to 3000 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying 4 to 16, the lowermost 1 to 3 are sheathing, the midddle suberect, linear-lanceolate and the upper grading into bracts-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence with scarious, shorter than the ovaries floral bracts .

Synonyms Bilabrella ndiana (Rendle) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Habenaria ingrata Rendle 1895; Habenaria similis Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998;

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