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Orchid Species: Habenaria arianae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria arianae is an orchid species identified by Geerinck in 1977.
ORIGIN: Found in Burundi, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi and Angola in wet grasslands and seepage areas with shallow soil over rock at elevations of 600 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to elliptic tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 10 to 20, lowermost 2 to 3 are sheathing leaves white with dark green reticulation, the middle 5 to 8 are semi-erect, linear, basally widening and the upper few are bract-like adpressed to the stem leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 1.6 to 2.8 [4 to 7 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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