Habenaria occlusa Summerh. 1964

SECTION Multipartitae Kraenzl Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name The Hidden? Habenaria

Flower Size .75" [1.8 cm]

Found in southwestern Tanzania in upland grasslands at elevations of 2100 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying 5 to 8, lowermost 1 to 2, sheathlike, the rest suberect, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to obtuse, grading towards the apex to bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer? on an erect, 2.8 to 7.6" [7 to 19 cm] long, rather densely to 20 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Kryptostoma occlusum (Summerh.) Szlach.1995; Ochyrorchis occlusa (Summerh.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;

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