Habenaria atrata R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2006 publ. 2007

Drawing by © R.González & Cuev.-Figeroa and The Epidendra Website

Fragrance partial shade Cool LATE Summer EARLY Fall

Common Name The Flat Black Habenaria [refers to the dried plant color]

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in oak/pine forests at elevations of 1300 to 1450 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with oblong-ovoid, wrinkled tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying cauline, rigid, imbricate, ovate to elliptic, grading smaller and better spaced above, the highest adpressed, lanceolate, subobtuse to acuminate, mucronate, yellow green, three nerved leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, semi-cylindrical, somewhat lax, .64 to 4" [1.6 ro 10 cm] long, 4 to 18 flowered inflorescence with twisted, conduplicate, slightly longer to equal the length of the ovary, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Habenaria atrata corresponds to the first form of H. guadalajarana found within Flora Galaciana McVaugh (1985).

"Habenaria atrata is characterized by by small, greenish-yellow plants, which dry black or almost black; wider ovary below the apex than at the base, with the space between the ribs angled; petals with the posterior lobe binerved; nectary slightly larger than the ovary; stigmatic processes trapeziform; the channels of the anther converge to the front without touching and can be seen in the side view of the column." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Flora Novo-Galiciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae McVaugh 1985 as the first form of H guadalajarana;

* Ibugana 14(1-2): 37-39. R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2007 Drawing fide;

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 101 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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