Habenaria stenorhynchos Schltr. 1895 SECTION Ceratopetalae
Photo by © N Wightman and The Flora of Zimbabwe Website
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Type Collection sheet by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Slim Beaked Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Transvaal South Africa in boggy grasslands at elevations of 1280 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to ovoid tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 4 to 8 the basal 1 to 2, usually sheath-like the middle ones semi-spreading, ovate to lanceolate, the upper ones grading smaller into bracts like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, laxly 1 to 7 flowered inflorescence with shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying sweetly fragrant, white with green veining flowers.
"Here we have a species which, although possessing flowers of about the same size as H. cornutella has the habit and lateral sepals of Sect. Ceratopetalae and is a fairly typical member of that section except for the relatively short anterior petal-lobe." Summerhayes 1938
Synonyms Ceratopetalorchis stenorhynchos (Schltr.) Szlach., Górniak & Tukallo 2003; Habenaria dactylostigma Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50: 33 Schlechter 1895;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 509 Schlechter 1915 as Habenaria dactylostigma nom. illeg.
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1938: 146 Summerhayes 1938;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide;
Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999;
Richardiana 3: 162 Szlach., Górniak & Tukallo 2003 as Ceratopetalorchis stenorthynchos
Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 269 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Ceratopetalorchis stenorhynchos drawing fide
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