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Orchid Species: Habenaria anaphysema
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria anaphysema is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1867.
ORIGIN: Found in Central African Republic, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Angola, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in swamps and seasonally flooded grasslands at elevations of 600 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Slender, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, densely tomentose to nearly glabrous tubers giving rise to an erect slender, leafy throughout stem carrying 6 to 12, more or less erect, narrowly linear to linear, becoming smaller, adpressed and lanceolate up the stem leaves that blooms in the later spring and earlier summer on an erect, 2 to 9.2 [5 to 23 cm] long, rather loosely to densely 8 to 24 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, rather chaffy bracts that are shorter than the ovary and carrying half-spreading, sometimes nocturnally fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.55 inches [1.4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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