Habenaria hieronymi Kraenzl. 1892 SECTION Guilleminii

Drawing by © Hoehne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

Part shade Cold LATE Summer EARLY Fall

Common Name Heironym's Habenaria [German Botanist in Argentina and Brazil 1800's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Rio Grande Do Sul state of Brazil and northern Argentina as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a short, thin, somewhat sinuous stem carrying a few, ovate-lanceolate, acute to slighyl acuminate, carinate dorsally, amplexicaul basally leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, shortly cylindrical, to 2.4" [to 6 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, somewhat furfuraceous, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 187 Kraenzlin 1892

Orchidacearum genera et species vol 1: 396 Kraenzlin 1901

Flora Brasilica Vol 3 part 4: 93 Cogniaux 1893

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 174 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide

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