Habenaria ligulata C.Schweinf. 1941 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Common Name The Spoon-Shaped Habenaria
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Peru at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a stout stem carrying all along, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, ascending, more or less imbricating leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, thick, densely many flowered, to 9.2" [22.7cm] long, several flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Habenella ligulata (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides ligulata (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 47 Schweinfurth 1941
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 28 Schweinfurth 1958;
Richardiana 4: 107 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides ligulata
Richardiana 6: 36 Szlach & Kras-Lap. 2006 as Habenella ligulata
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