Habenaria socotrana Balf.f. 1884

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Common Name The Socotrana Habenaria

Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]

Found in northern Somalia and Socotra Island as a terrestrial with a thin, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 5, rosulate, membraneous, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, obtuse leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, lax, several flowered inflorescence with attenuate, acuminate, shorter than then ovary floral bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms Habenaria socotrana Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. 1893 Rchb.f ex Kraenzlin

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 12: 96 Balf f. 1883

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 143 Rchb.f ex Kraenzlin 1892 as Habenaria socotrana nom. illeg.

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