Habenaria exaltata Barb.Rodr. 1877 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © Jacques Klein and the Orquideas do Rio do Sul Website
Drawing by © Hoehne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Photos by © A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
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Common Name The Beautiful Habenaria
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Parana' and Rio do Sul states of Brazil at elevations around 1000 meters as a small to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths carrying erect, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, terminal, to 10" [25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter to the same length as the ovary floral bracts.
Cogniaux compared this species to H hassleriana but differs in the short anther canals and the short stigmatic proceses
Synonyms Habenaria crassipes Schltr.1925; Habenaria henscheniana var. densiflora Cogn. 1893; Habenaria sceptrum Schltr. 1919
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 156 Barb Rodr. 1877
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 85 Cogn. 1893 as Habenaria henscheniana var. densiflora
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 249 Schlechter 1919 as Habenaria sceptrum
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 36: 18 Schlechter 1925 as H crassipes;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H crassipes drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H crassipes drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H sceptrum drawing good;
Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 Sćo Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 photo;
The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 as H crassipes drawing no
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