Habenaria felipensis Ames 1910
Plant and Flowers in situ Oaxaca Mexico
Photos by © Matteo Anderseen Philippe Charles D'Angelo Vandal-Lemaire and The I Naturalist Website
TYPE Drawing by © Ames and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
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Common Name The Sierra de Felipe Habenaria [A Mountain range in Oaxaca state of Mexico]
Flower Size
Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico and Guatemala at elevations around 2750 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an ovate tuber giving rise to an erect, stem carrying ovate-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erct, 1.2 to 5" [3 to 12.5 cm] long, spicate, laxly 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with acuminate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Similar in habit to H subauriculata but the flowers differ in the bifid petals and by the lateral divisions of the lip which are directed forward and not reflexed.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orchidaceae 4: 251 Ames 1910
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 drawing fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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