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Habenaria elegantula is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1937. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Habenaria armata.
ORIGIN: Found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Burundi, Congo, Zaire, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Angola and Zimbabwe in grassy areas in shallow soil over rocks and lava projections at elevations of 1200 to 2350 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a stem carrying a tuft of leaves at the base and several more along the length shaped as linear to linear-lanceolate lower and towards the apex, more or less adpressed to the stem, lanceolate, acute shorter than the basal ones that blooms in the late spring through summer on an erect, 2 to 3.5 cm] long, densely 2 to 9 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts that are shorter than the pedicel.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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