Habenaria beccarii Schltr. 1911 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl

Drawing by © Schlechter and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name Beccari's Habenaria [Italian Botanist and Orchid Enthusiast early 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Sulawesi and the Moluccas as a medium sized, terrestrial with strict to substrict, terete, glabrous stem carrying at the base 4 to 5, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, about 4.4" [11 cm] long, laxly 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate half as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Fimbrorchis beccarii (Schltr.) Szlach. 2004; Pecteilis beccarii (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 337 Schlechter 1911

Tidsskrift bd 68 hft 1 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand V Seidedenfaden 1973 drawing fide;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 490 Szlach. 2004 as Fimbrorchis beccarii;

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pectelis beccarii

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