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Habenaria calva

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Type of Habenaria lithophila Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Habenaria dregeana Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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Identification
Habenaria calva (Rchb.f.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Habenaria dregeana Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Summerhayes, V.S., Habenaria dregeana Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Habenaria dregeana
  • Habenaria lithophila
  • Habenaria calva

Flora

Entry for HABENARIA calva Rolfe [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
HABENARIA calva Rolfe [family ]
HABENARIA dregeana Reichb. f. var. calva [family ], in Flora, 1865, 179.
HABENARIA dregeana Kränzl. [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 149, in part (not Lindl.).
Information
Tuber ovate-oblong, 8 lin. long, 5 lin. broad. Leaves 2, basal, horizontal, suborbicular or broadly ovate-orbicular, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad. Scapes about 1 ft. high, with numerous triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, bract-like sheaths. Bracts narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 4–7 lin. long. Pedicels 5–7 lin. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, acute, 2 1/2 lin. long; lateral obliquely ovate-oblong, with curved, acuminate apex, 3 lin. long. Petals bipartite; posterior lobe falcate-lanceolate, subobtuse, 2 lin. long; anterior lobe falcate-linear, 1 3/4 lin. long. Lip tripartite, with short entire base; lobes linear; side lobes 2 1/2 lin. long, somewhat divaricate; front lobe 3 1/4 lin. long; spur clavate, 5–6 lin. long. Stigmatic processes subclavate-linear, 1 1/2 lin. long. Anther channels free from the side lobes of the rostellum, and each about 1 1/2 lin. long; middle lobe of the rostellum very minute, tooth-like.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; between Monino and Lake Ivantala, in shady woods, very rare, Welwitsch, 732!

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