Habenaria longipedicellata Hoehne 1937 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © Nils Servientis and the The I Naturalist Website
Drawing by © Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon
Drawing © by Hoehne
Common Name The Long-Pedicel Habenaria
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Colombia, Fr. Guiana and northern and central Brazil at elevations of 200 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, robust stem enveloped by imbricating, leafless sheaths becoming leaf-bearing towards the middle carrying to 15, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves gradually decreasing in size above, that blooms in the summer on an erect, slightly sinuous, 4.8 to 12" [12 to 30 cm] long, pyramidical, sublaxly to densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate,-lanceolate, acute, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying basally white flowers that become green towards the apex.
+"Habenaria longipedicellata is very similar to H. lehmanniana, 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. rodeiensis. Habenaria longipedicellata occurs in open areas as well as the borders or even inside forests. Along with H. trifida and H. petalodes, it is one of the few Habenaria species that can colonize disturbed habitats and sometimes is frequently found in pastures, road sides and other man made habitats. The flower segments have a white base which becomes green towards the apex."
Synonyms Rhinorchis longipedicellata (Hoehne) Szlach. 2012
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 133 Hoehne 1937
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing not;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H goyazensis drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H goyazensis drawing fide;
Richardiana 13: 76 Szlach 2012 as Rhinorchis longipedicellata
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 216 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Rhinorchis longipedicellata drawing fide
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