Habenaria anaphysema Rchb.f. 1867 SECTION Replicatae Kraenzl. 1892

Collection Sheet Photos courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

LATER EARLIER

Common Name The ? Habenaria

Flower Size .55" [1.4 cm]

Found in Sierra Leone?, Central African Republic, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Angola, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in swamps and seasonally flooded grasslands at elevations of 600 to 2100 meters as a slender, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, densely tomentose to nearly glabrous tubers giving rise to an erect slender, leafy throughout stem carrying 6 to 12, more or less erect, narrowly linear to linear, becoming smaller, adpressed and lanceolate up the stem leaves that blooms in the later spring and earlier summer on an erect, 2 to 9.2" [5 to 23 cm] long, rather loosely to densely 8 to 24 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, rather chaffy bracts that are shorter than the ovary and carrying half-spreading, sometimes nocturnally fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Bilabrella anaphysema (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; West African Lilies and Orchids Morton 1961 drawing fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Orchids of the Central African Republic A Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1986; Flora Zambesiaca Volume 11 Part one Pope 1998; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Bilabrella anaphysema drawing ok

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