Habenaria dentifera C.Schweinf. 1941 SECTION Seticauda
Photo by © Rebecca Repasky and the Atrium Biodiversity Information System
Drawing by © Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon
Common Name The Toothed Habenaria
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Ecuador, Peru and west central Brazil in grasslands at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with erect, leafy throughout stems carrying a few to several, cauline, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, scapose, 8" [20 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, spreading bracts.
+"This is an uncommon species in Brazil. The specimen in the collection Pires & Silva 8058 was identified by Pabst (1962) as H floribunda However, although the two species are similar, the flowers of H. dentifera have a prominent anterior petal (ca. .08" [2 mm] long) about half the length of the posterior petal (vs. reduced to a denticulate projection ca. .04" [1 mm] long and about 1/5 the length of the posterior petal in H. floribunda). The species occurs in forests or " caatinga" and the flowers are recorded as green."
Synonyms Habenella dentifera (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides dentifera (C.Schweinf.) Szlach.2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 46 C Schweinfurth 1941
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 51 C Schweinfurth 1941 drrawing fide
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 26 Schweinfurth 1958;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 25 Schweinfurth 1958 drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 502 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide;
Richardiana 4: 106 Szlach. 2004 as Plantantheroides dentifera;
Richardiana 6: 35 Szlach. & Kras. Lap. 2006 as Habenella dentifera;
Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Orchids of the Darien Gap Kolanowska 2014 as Habenella dentifera drawing ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 88 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Habenella dentifera drawing/photo fide
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