Habenaria drepanodes Renz ex Kolan., S.Nowak & Szlach. 2015 SECTION Acuiferae
HOLOTYPE Collection Sheet by © A Nakisi and the Kew Herbarium
Common Name The Sicle Shaped? Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in the Solomon Islands in primary forest at elevations around 275 to 900 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a rosette of 3, basal, elliptic, acute petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, to 20" [50 cm] long, loosely several to many flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, ciliate along margins, usually just shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale green flowers.
"Habenaria drepanodes resembles H. retroflexa, but the two species may be easily distinguished based on the lip shape. In H. drepanodes, the middle lobe is half as long as the lateral ones and it is ornamented with two elevated plates. In H. retroflexa, the lip lobes are nearly equal in length and there is no ornamentation on the middle lobe. An additional difference between the species is the ratio between ovary and floral bract length. In H. drepanodes, the floral bracts are broadly lanceolate and nearly equal in length to the ovary and pedicel. In H. retroflexa, the floral bracts are broadly ovate, usually half the length of the ovary with pedicel, or shorter; rarely the bracts in the basal part of the raceme are longer." Kolanowska etal 2021
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Ann. Bot. Fenn. 52: 329 Renz ex Kolan., S.Nowak & Szlach. 2015
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