Habenaria taeniodema Summerh. 1966 SECTION Multipartitae Kraenzl.

Collection Sheet & Photos by © R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa and Kew's Plants of the World Website

Part sun Cold LATER Summer EARLY Fall

Common Name The Band-Like Habenaria [refers to the band-like or strap-shaped connective]

Flower Size 3.2" [8 cm]

Found in central Ethiopia in damp scrub at elevations of 2200 to 2400 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 3 to 4, narrowly lanceolate, suberect leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, to 8" [200 cm] long, to 5 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, longer than the ovary floral bracts

Differs from H excelsa in the larger flowers with a 1.8 to 2" [4.5 to 5 cm] long, dorsal sepal versus smaller flowers with a .92 to 1" [2.3 to 2.5 cm] long dorsal sepal.

Synonyms Pseudocoeloglossum taeniodema (Summerh.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Oesterr. Bot. Z. 113: 217 Summerhayes 1966

Orchidee (Hamburg) 54: 335 Szlach 2003 as Pseudocoeloglossum taeniodema;

Field Guide to Ethiopian Orchids Demisdsdew2, Crtibb & Rasmusen 2004

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