Habenaria fassetii [Szlach. & Kolan] in ed

Drawing by © A Krol 2017

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Common Name Fassset's Habenaria [Original Collector of the type mid 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia at elevations around 2300 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a leafy, erect stem carrying to 10, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, erect, adnate to the stem leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, laxly 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Similar to Habenaria echeverryi but H fassetii has the anterior lobe is much shorter than the posterior one, the lip is set on a prominent, wide claw, the middle lobe is narrowly ligulate and both lateral lobes are prominently longer than the middle one. The spur is filiform and as long as the pedicellate ovary. Overall the most similar species in its floral parts ia H longipedicellata but it has a many flowered inflorescence versus 6 to 8 flowers in H fassetii, the rostellum middle lobe is widest at the apex versus in H fasetii the middle lobe is attenuate towards the acute apex. The anterior and posterior petal lobes are much longer than H fassetii." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms *Rhinorchis fassetii Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 220 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Rhinorchis fassetii drawing fide

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