Habenaria clypeata Lindl. 1835

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Edouard Faria ©

and EARLY

Common Name The Shield-Shaped Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Nayarit, jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Mexico, Morelos, Dept Federal, Oaxaca, Pueblo, Vera Cruz, and Chiapas states of Mexico as well as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in grassy openings in oak and oak/pine forests at elevations of 1000 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a small basal tuber giving rise to an erct stem carrying many, oblong-elliptic to lancdeoalte, spreading toappressed, acute to narrowly acuminate, basally clasping, articulate to the leaf sheaths and blooming in the suumer and early fall on an erect, few to 20 flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate,to lanceolate, conduplicate, acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms Habenaria lactiflora A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Habenaria spithamaea Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] Flora Novo Galaciana McVaugh 1985

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