Habenaria aviculoides Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930

SECTION Leptoceras

Holotype by © Oakes Ames

Common Name The H avicula like Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in San Jose province of Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ellipsoid tuber giving rise to an erect stem enveloped in the lower half by adpressed, tubular sheaths and carrying above 6 to 10, distichous, membraneous, lanceolate, oblanceolate to ovate, middle blades largest, , acute to acuminate, cuneate to rounded-clasping at the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, rachis 4.8" [12 cm] long, rather loosely, few flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acuminate, floral bracts.

"Closely allied to H avicula but differrs in the truely bipartite petals and a geniculate lip." Ames 1910

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Schedul. Orchid. 10: 1 Ames 1930

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