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Orchid Species: Habenaria parva
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria parva is an orchid species identified by (Summerh.) Summerh. in 1938.
ORIGIN: Found in Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Central African Republic in savannahs and grasslands at elevations around 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to narrowly cylindrical tubers giving rise to an erect, very delicate, minutely glandular stem carrying 4 to 6, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute held at the stem base, sessil cauline leaves and a single, held towards the middle of the stem, adpressed to the stem, ovate-lanceolate, acute, minutely glandular cauline sheath that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, to 1.6 [4 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with oblong-ovate to lanceolate, acute, herbaceous floral bracts and carrying small flowers with the sepals being green and the lip and the petals are white.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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