Habenaria cruegeri Cogn. 1909 SECTION Nudae

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Common Name Crueger's Habenaria [Original Collector of the type speceis late 1800's earlier 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Trinidad-Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela and Brazil as a miniature to medium sized terrestrial with a small, ovoid-oblong, villous tuber giving rise to an erect, subfiliform, strict to slightly flexuous, terete stem carrying erect, rigid, linear-setaceous leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, laxly 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with membraneous, ovate-lanceolate, acute to long acuminate, about as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying subsecund flowers.

Synonyms Habenaria cruegeri var. flaviflora J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch. 2018

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* I.Urban, Symb. Antill. 6: 302 Cogniaux 1909;

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 215 Ames 1910;

Phytotaxa 373: 262 J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch. 2018 as Habenaria cruegeri var. flaviflora

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