Habenaria retinervis Summerh. 1962 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.

Collection sheet Collection and Photo by Renz © and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

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Common Name The Net Nerved Habenaria

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi and Zambia in grassy clearings in woodlands or at the margins at elevations around 1000 to 1740 meters as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a globose, ellipsoid to ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, stem carrying 7 to 11, the lowermost white with dark green reticulation, sheathing, the next few semi-erect, lanceolate, the uppermost grading into the bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 10.4" [10 to 17 cm] long, fairly laxly 8 to 30 flowered inflorescence with scarious, shorter than the ovaries floral bracts.

Synonyms Bilabrella retinervis (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella retinervis drawing ok

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