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Habenaria filicornis

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Identification
Habenaria filicornis Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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  • Habenaria filicornis

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Entry for HABENARIA filicornis Lindl. [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 filicornis Lindl. [family ], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 318. —Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 170.
Orchis filicornis Thonn. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 397.
Information
Tubers ovate. Stem 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 2-leaved. Leaves cauline, very erect, sheathing, oblong-linear, obtuse, 4–6 in. long. Racemes lax, many-flowered. Bracts subulate, as long as the pedicels. Flowers minute, ichneumon-like, yellowish-green. Dorsal sepal ovate, acute, erect; lateral larger than the dorsal, retrorse, falcate. Petals simple, falcate, forming a hood with the dorsal sepal. Lip tripartite; side lobes deflexed, filiform, obtuse; front lobe ascending equal to or twice as long as the side lobes; spur filiform, compressed, as long as the pedicel. Stigmatic processes acute, deflexed. Anther channels short, erect. Capsule oblong.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Thonning.
Notes
Only known to me from the published descriptions.

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