Habenaria ekmaniana Kraenzl. 1911 SECTION Leptoceras Photo by © Jose Antonio Radins
Photo by © A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
Drawing © by Hoehne
EARLY 
Common Name Ekman's Habenaria [Swedish Botanist early 1900's]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in DF, Minas Gerais, Matto Grosso do Sul, Sao Paulo, Rio do Sul, and Santa Catarina as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a stout, robust, erect stem enveloped completely by imbricating leafless sheaths grading above into 14 to 15, leaf-bearing amplexicaul, ovate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, equal in length to the ovary floral bracts.
Kew adds H recta as a synonym of this species but I have left them separate pending more research.
A large flowered species related to H araneiflora but distinguished by the petals and lip with a peculiar pitted, dotted appearance, one third smaller flowers, and quite different lip an petals. The upper leaves under the inflorescence are reminiscent of those of Peristylis. H recta was compared to H umbraticola and H nemorosa but differs from both in the loose inflorescence and the longer front segments of the petals. The stem is strikingly straighlt." Schlechter 1920
Synonyms Rhinorchis ekmaniana (Kraenzl.) Szlach. 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 15 Kraenzlin 1911
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 354 Schlechter 1920 as H recta
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Richardiana 13: 74 Szlach. 2012 as Rhinorchis ekmaniana
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