Habenaria lactiflora A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 SECTION Clypeatae
Photos by © L. Hernández H/Drawing by Jorge Roberto González Tamayo and the Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 192 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Common Name The Milky White Flowered Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Jalisco and Michoacan states of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with small subterraneoan tubers giving rise to an erect stem enveloped completely by leaf sheath bases carrying distichous, strongly carinate, erect, adpressed to the stem, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 3.2" [8 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescence.
"Habenaria lactiflora is very similar and related to H. jardeliana but it has an even more prominent keel of the floral bract and a very loose reticulum; the anterior segment of the antrorse petals; the oblong, spatulate, obtuse middle lobe of the labellum; the spur barely longer than the ovary; the column with an arched back; the channels of the anther and the arms of the rostellum slightly arched." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Synonyms Habenaria lactiflora var. buccalis Rchb.f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 as H lactiflora var buccalis; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 as H lactiflora var buccalis; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Hamer Vol 1 1974 drawing/photo fide
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 192 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing/photo fide;
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