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Orchid Species: Habenaria montolivaea
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria montolivaea is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. ex Engl. in 1892.
ORIGIN: Found only in Ethiopia in open grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a leafy throughout stem carrying 4 to 7, basal 3 spreading, obovate, grading smaller above to bract-like leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 1.6 [4 cm] long, subdensely to densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, lowermost often longer than the flowers floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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