Habenaria magdalenensis Hoehne 1937 SECTION Leptoceras
Photos by © J. A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
Drawing by © Hoehne
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Common Name The Magdalena? Habenaria
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil as a medium to large sized, cool growing terrestrial witha lanose-pilose tuber giving rise to an erect, leafy throughout stem enveloped by reticulate-venulose, long-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, 4.8 to 8" [12 to 20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with membraneous, reticulate-venulose, lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to H secunda but the inflorescenceis more sparse and the smaller flowers are quite different in the shape of the petals and lip. The floral parts are completely entire as in H hexaptera, H curvilabra and H floribunda which are all similar but H magdalensis differs clearly in the size of the flowers and the abscence of wings on the ovary." Hoehne 1940
Synonyms Habenaria st.-magdalenensis Hoehne 1937; Habenella magdalenensis (Hoehne) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides magdalenensis (Hoehne) Szlach 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 132 Hoehne 1937
Res. Hist. Secc. Bot. Agron. Inst. Biol. Sćo Paulo 1937: 143 Hoehne 1937 as Habenaria st.-magdalenensis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 89 Hoehne 1940
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: Tab 33 Hoehne 1940 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Richardiana 4: 107 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides magdalenensis
Richardiana 6: 37 Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2006 as Habenella magdalenensis
Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 Sćo Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 photo
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