Habenaria tisserantii Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl 1892

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Common Name Tisserant's Habenaria [French original collector of the species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in the Central African Republic in grasslands at elevations under 500 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a single, oval tuber giving rise to an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 9, grass-like, acute, erect, decreasing in size upwards leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, rather dense, to 12 flowered inflorescence with glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Related to H macrostele and H maitlandii but distinguished from both in the gynostemium structure, especially the unlobed auricles and the short, massive anther, rostellum and stigma projections and inthe smaller flowers." Szlach etal 2010

Synonyms Bilabrella tisserantii (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. in 2003

References W3 Tropicos,,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Cameroun 34: 174 Szlach 1998;

Richardiana 3: 143 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2003 as Bilabrella tisserantii

Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1: 219 Szlach etal 2010 as Bilabrella tisseranti [sp]

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