Terrestrial herbs. Stems unbranched, leafy. Inflorescence terminal. Flowers resupinate. Sepals and petals free. Lip united to column at base, 3-lobed, side-lobes pectinately-toothed; spur cylindric. Column erect. Pollinaria 2. Stigmatic arms divided into 2 elongated branches, the lower fertile and capitate, the upper sterile and horn-like. Differs from Habenaria in having branched stigmatic arms. Derivation of name: from the Greek kentron, a spur and stigma, referring to the horn-like upper branch of the flower’s stigmatic processes Worldwide: 5 species in tropical Africa Tanzania: 1 taxon. |
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