Habenaria stanislawii (Kras & Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl. 1893

TYPE drawing of Bilabrella stanislawii by © M. Kras. & D L Szlachetko 2008

Common Name Stanislaw's Habenaria [Dedicated to Professor Stanis?aw Lisowski (1926–2002) from Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, an eminent Polish botanist who worked in West and Central Africa]

Flower Size

Found in Zaire in damp grasslands at elevations around 1650 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous, slender, leafy throughout stem carrying 8, the 4 lowermost reduced to a sheath, lanceolate-linear, acute, the upper leaves much smaller, adpressed to the stem, lanceolate, acuminate, similar to the lower bracts that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, terminal, 2.76" [6.8 cm] long, laxly 12 flowered inflorescence with Inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"H stanislawii is related to H. burttii but the spur is pendent, and the lateral lip lobes shorter than the middle one. It differs from H macrostele by its lip shape and delicate auricles." Kraas & Szlach. 2008

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Polish Bot. J. 53: 99 Kraas & Szlach. 2008 as Bilabella stanislawii Drawing fide

* Orchid Rev. 122(1306, Suppl.): 39 J M H Shaw 2014

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