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Orchid Species: Habenaria boiviniana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria boiviniana is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. & Schltr. in F.W.L.Kraenzlin in 1897.
ORIGIN: Found in Kenya, Tanzania, the Comoros and Madagascar in semi deciduous forests, humid evergreen forests or on rocks in woods at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with ovoid to elliptic, densely tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, slender to rather stout, leafy nearly the base stem carrying 5 to 11, spreading, the lowermost 2 bract-like, the middle ones obovate, acute, narrowing basally, the uppermost 2 to 3 are lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 4 to 8 [10 to 20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the flowers floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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