Habenaria mauamakubwa Bytebier, 2025

Bytebier, Benny, 2025, Names in Habenaria for species currently in the African orchid genera Centrostigma, Platycoryne and Roeperocharis (Habenariinae, Orchidoideae), Phytotaxa 711 (2), pp. 95-100 : 97

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.711.2.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CE26DB42-DE03-FFE7-FF59-FA87FC77F9F3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Habenaria mauamakubwa Bytebier
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

Habenaria mauamakubwa Bytebier , nom. nov.

Replaced synonym: Platycoryne grandiflora Summerhayes (1958: 65)

Note: not Habenaria grandiflora ( Bigelow 1824: 321) Beck (1833: 349)

Etymology: the name refers to big flowers in Kiswahili: maua makubwa.

Note:—Geerinck considered this to be Platycoryne latipetala (Summerh.) var. grandiflora (Summerh.) Geerinck (1982: 345) . However, I follow Summerhayes and keep this at species rank.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Liliopsida
Order	Asparagales
Family	Orchidaceae
Genus	Habenaria

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