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Orchid Species: Habenaria plectromaniaca
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria plectromaniaca is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. & S.Moore in 1878.
ORIGIN: Found in Kenya and Tanzania in marshy grasslands at forests edges at elevations of sea level to 500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 5 to 15, lowermost 1 to 2 sheathlike, the middle 5 to 7, suberect, linear to lanceolate-linear, acute, the upper ones adpressed to the stem, much smaller, lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, 4 to 12 [10 to 30 cm] long,loosely to rather densely 7 to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, thin, scarious floral bracts that are shorter than the ovary and carrying spreading white to greenish white flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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