Habenaria splendens Rendle 1895 SECTION Multipartitae Kraenzl.

Plant and FlowersPhotos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

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Common Name The Splendid Habenaria

Flower Size 2.5" [6.25 cm]

Found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in grasslands and woodland margins at elevations of 1270 to 2100 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect leafy stem carrying 6 to 12, the lowest sheath-like, the next few ovate, acute, loosely funnel-shaped basally, dark green with 3 prominent longitudinal veined leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 8.8" [10 to 22 cm] long, fairly laxly 4 to 20 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Kryptostoma splendens (Rendle) Szlach. 1995; Ochyrorchis splendens (Rendle) Szlach. 2004

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; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Launert & Cribb 1992 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1995 photo fide; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996 photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing/photo fide; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004 drawing/photo fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Ochyrorchis splendens drawing fide

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