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Orchid Species: Habenaria welwitschii

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Habenaria welwitschii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1865.
Genus
Habenaria (Hab.)
Grex
welwitschii
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Rchb.f.
Year
1865
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ORIGIN: Found in Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Mozambique in marshy locations, grasslands and in rock crevasses at elevations of 1350 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, sparsely tomentose tuber giving rise to an erect, slender to rather stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 7 to 12, lowermost sheathlike, the middle spreading to recurved, lanceolate to linear, acute, the upper 2 to 4, much smaller, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 2.4 to 7.2 [6 to 18 cm] long, rather densely 10 to 30 flowered inflorescence.

-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Habenaria Hab keiliana 1909 Kraenzl.
Add+ Habenaria Hab leptostigma 1906 Schltr.
Add+ Bilabrella Bilabrella welwitschii 2003 (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap.
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