Habenaria weberiana Schltr. 1915 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl.

Plant and Flowers in situ Photos by © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Type Drawing Drawing by © Schlechter andThe Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name Weber's Habenaria

Flower Size .65" [1.65 cm]

Found in Zaire, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in wet grasslands at elevations of 850 to 1620 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with globose to ellipsoid, sparsely hairy tubers giving rise to a leafy stem carrying 6 to 13, lowest few sheath-like, middle 2 to 7, sub-erect, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, 3 prominently veined, uppermost grading into bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, to 12 " [to 30 cm] long, rather laxly to fairly densely several to many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying foul smelling flowers

Synonyms Bilabrella weberiana (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2003; Habenaria huillensis var. weberiana (Schltr.) Geerinck 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing ok; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella weberiana drawing fide

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