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Orchid Species: Habenaria splendens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria splendens is an orchid species identified by Rendle in 1895.
ORIGIN: Found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia in grasslands and woodland margins at elevations of 1270 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to just large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect leafy stem carrying 6 to 12, the lowest sheath-like, the next few ovate, acute, loosely funnel-shaped basally, dark green with 3 prominent longitudinal veined leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 8.8 [10 to 22 cm] long, fairly laxly 4 to 20 flowered inflorescence.. Kryptostoma splendens (Rendle) Szlach. 1995; Ochyrorchis splendens (Rendle) Szlach. 2004.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.5 inches [6.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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