Habenaria warburgana Kraenzl. 1898

Collection Sheet by © Vanoverberg

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Common Name Warburg's Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in the Philippines on Luzon at elevations around 1300 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with 2 basal, subopposite, ovate to ovate-oblong, acute leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, to 10" [25 cm] tall, few to several flowered inflorescence.

"Similar in plant habit to H suaveolens but its other characteristics are intermediate between H rostellifera and H roxburgii. The flowers are decidedly pretty for a habenari, the small dorsal sepal and the narrow petals are more delicate that the large lateral sepals, the lateral segments of the lip arenoticably broadened ast their base, but otherwise threadlike and thin. The spur is curved like the abdomen of a ichneumonid," Kraenzlin 1898

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 467 Kraenzlin 1898

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