Habenaria melanopoda Hoehne & Schltr.1921 SECTION Subnudas
Photo by © Jacques Klein and The Orquideas do Rio Grande do Sul Website
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Hoehne/Schlechter and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Drawing Drawing by © Hoehne
EARLY 
Common Name The Black Footed Habenaria
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, Rio do Sul and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by erect, linear, sheath-like, grading larger above leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, to 3.2" [to 8cm] long, laxly 8 to 14 flowered inflorescence with erect, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, half as long as the ovary floral bracts CAUTION!! Some references put this species as a synonym of H alpestris but I have left them separate for now
Synonyms Habenaria trimeropetala var. itatingensis Hoehne 1940; Habenaria verecunda Schltr. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secç. Bot. 1(2): 20 Hoehne & Schlechter 1921;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 27: 300 Schlechter 1930 as H verecunda Flora Brasilica Vol XII I : 114 Hoehne 1940 drawing good; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H trimeropetala var itatingensis not validly published; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H verrucunda drawing ok; Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria João A. N. Batista; João Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 São Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 photo;
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