Habenaria euryloba D.L.Jones 2002

TYPE Drawing by © D L Jones

EARLY

Common Name The Lobed Habenaria

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm] wide

Found in Queensland state of Australia as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with vertical, ellipsoid, fleshy tubers giving rise to 2 to 3, obliquely erect, in a loose radical rosette, lanceolate to elliptical, green, subacute leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, slender, provided with 5 to 7, sterile, ovate-lanceolate, linear-acuminate to subacute bracts, 10 to 20" [25 to 50 cm] tall, 8 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying obliquely erect to porrect, white, sweetly fragrant flowers.

Similar to H praecox but differs in the much shorter lateral lobes of the lip, the mid lobe with a much wider contraction and the dorsal sepal is spread wider and is in a different shape

Synonyms Pecteilis euryloba (D.L.Jones) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orchadian 13: 516 D L Jones 2002

Orchadian 13: 521 D L Jones 2002 drawing fide

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis euryloba

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