Habenaria stenochila Lindl. 1862 SECTION Seticauda

Drawing by © Margonska

Common Name The Slim Lipped Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon and the Gulf of Guinea Is. in forests, along rivers and on rocks in undergrowth at elevations of 160 to 700 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or epiphyte without tubers but an erect, rather delicate, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 8 to 12, petiolate, spread, oblong to oblanceolate, acute, succulent, pale to medium green, undulate margined leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 2 to 3.8" [5 to 9.5 cm] long, rather dense, to 25 flowered inflorescence with glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Distinguuished from H zambesina in the ciliolate basal part of the lip.

Synonyms Habenella stenochila (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides stenochila (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 6: 139 Lindley 1862

Richardiana 4: 108 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides stenochila

Richardiana 6: 38 Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2006 as Habenella stenochila;

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 128 Szlach etal 2010 as as Habenella stenochila drawing fide

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