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Habenaria microceras

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Name

Identification
Platanthera preussii Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Peristylus preussii (Kraenzl.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Habenaria microceras Hook.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Summerhayes,
Related name
  • Peristylus preussii
  • Habenaria microceras
  • Platanthera preussii

Flora

Entry for HABENARIA microceras Hook. 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 microceras Hook. f. [family ], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 221. —Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 142.
Information
Plant 1–2 1/2 ft. high. Leaves cauline, elliptical, subacute, 1 1/2–4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad. Racemes 4–10 in. long, rather dense, many-flowered. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3–5 lin. long. Pedicels 2–3 lin. long. Flowers green. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1 1/4 lin. long. Petals oblong, obtuse, 1 1/4 lin. long. Lip fleshy, trilobed, 1 1/4 lin. long; side lobes oblong, obtuse, a little narrower and longer than the front lobe, slightly incurved; front lobe triangular, distinctly keeled in front; spur linear-oblong, obtuse, slightly curved, 1/2 lin. long. Stigmatic processes subsessile, rounded, obtuse, diverging. Anther channels very short or scarcely exserted. Rostellum minute and tooth-like.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea 7000–10,000 ft., Mann, 2116! Johnston, 31! 32! Preuss, 967.

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