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Bilabrella isoantha is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Szlach. in 2003. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Habenaria isoantha.
ORIGIN: Found in Tanzania in grasslands at elevations of 900 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid, tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, rather slenser to stout, leafy throughout stem carrying 10 to 15, the lowermost few sheathing, the middle 4 to 6, spreading, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, the upper ones, adpressed to the stem, lanceolate, bract-like leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 4 to 12 [10 to 30 cm] long, rather closely 14 to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, thin, chaffy the lower ones longer to equallto the ovary floral bracts and carrying night fragrant flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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