Habenaria ensigera Renz 1987 SECTION Acuiferae
Drawing by © P Royen and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The ? Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in western New Guinea on the edge of creeks at elevations around 100 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with 4 to 6, basal, rosulate-crowded, narrowly elliptic, base petiolate, apex acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the early summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 16" [40 cm] long, peduncle-scales small, lanceolate, acuminate, the rachis 4" [10 cm] long, racemose, rsther loosely several to many flowered inflorescence with vate, apex shortly acuminate, about half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with the sepals and petals light green, the lip light orange, the spur whitish with a green tip, and the anther light yellow.
" Habenaria ensigera has unique shortly and irregularly bilobulate-emarginate lateral lobes of the lip, not found in any other species of this group." Kolanowska etal 2021
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Pl. Syst. Evol. 155: 319 Renz 1987
Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017;
The Orchids of New Guinea Website
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