Habenaria lehmanniana Kraenzl. 1892 SECTION Pentadactylae Urban
Drawing by © João A. N. Batista; João Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon
Common Name Lehmann's Habenaria [German Counsel and Orchid Collector in Colombia 1800's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Fr Guiana, Guyana, Colombia and Brazil on savannahs, in montane forests and rocky places on cliffs at elevations of 1200 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a delicate, slender stem carrying linear-lanceolate, acuminate, erect, adnate to the stem, decreasing in size above, bluish green leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, erect, fractiflex, laxly few flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, longer to much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with sepals petals and lip light green with a whitened base.
+"This species is remarkably similar to H. longipedicellata. One of the most significant differences is the apex of rostellum midlobe, which is projected beyond the anthers in both species, but is broad and truncate in H. lehmanianna and narrow and acute in H. longipedicellata. The development of the vegetative parts and number of flowers is variable in both species. H. lehmanniana is very similar to Habenaria longipedicellata, H. rodeiensis and H. tamanduensis , and the exact identity of each of these taxa and the separation between them is not clear. Until a more detailed comparative study is done, we provisionally treat here all the material in this group from lowlands in the Brazilian Amazon as H. longipedicellata. Material of H. longipedicellata appears identified in the literature and in several herbaria as H. caldensis, H. lehmanniana and H. rodeiensisHabenaria lehmanianna is concentrated in high altitude areas of Colombia and Venezuela, but sporadically enters northern Brazil in the state of Roraima. The collection J.B.F. da Silva 827 is the first confirmed report of H. lehmanianna for Brazil. The record of H. lehmanianna for French Guiana is doubtful as the report by Renz (1992) is based on the collection Veyret 1619 which is, in our opinion, referable to H. longipedicellata. Sepals are green and the petals and lip light green with a whitened base."
Synonyms Habenaria lehmannii Kraenzl.1893; Rhinorchis lehmanniana (Kraenzl.) Szlach., S.Nowak & Baranow 2017
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 97 Kraenzlin 1892
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 38 Colombia Schlechter 1920;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 216 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Rhinorchis lehmanniana drawing fide
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