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Habenaria huillensis

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Name

Identification
Habenaria huillensis Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Habenaria kassneriana Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Habenaria kassneriana
  • Habenaria urundiensis
  • Habenaria huillensis
  • Habenaria weberiana

Flora

Entry for HABENARIA huillensis Reichb. f. [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 huillensis Reichb. f. [family ], in Flora, 1865, 179. —Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 78.
Information
Plant 2–2 1/2 ft. high. Leaves cauline, linear-lanceolate, acute, 3–6 in. long. Racemes 4–6 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 6–10 lin. long. Pedicels 8–10 lin. long. Flowers white. Dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, 2 3/4 lin. long; lateral obliquely cuneate, oblong, apiculate, 1/3 below the apex. Petals bipartite; posterior lobe linear-filiform, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; anterior lobe 4 1/2–5 lin. long, linear-filiform from a lanceolate base. Lip tripartite; lobes linear; side lobes 4–5 lin. long; front lobe 5–6 lin. long; spur 10–11 lin. long, filiform, very slightly thickened towards the apex. Stigmatic processes capitate-clavate, 2 lin. long. Anther channels slender, as long as the stigmas. Rostellum narrowly triangular, 3/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Malange, Mechow, 437. Huilla; near Lake Ivantala, towards Quilongues, Welwitsch, 724! near Catumbo, Welwitsch, 724B! between Monino and Ivantala, Welwitsch, 724C! Huilla, Antunes, 14!

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