Habenaria nogeirana R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2006 publ. 2007

TYPE Drawing by © R.González & Cuevas-Figaroa and © The Epidendra Website

Part shade Warm cool Summer EARLYFall

Common Name Nogiera's Habenaria [Jao Nogiera Batista Mexican Habenaria Expert and Orchid enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Jalisco and Zacatecas staets of Mexico in open grasslands and cultivated fields at elevations of 1400 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid, finely wrinkled, pubescent tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 7 to 12, cauline, heicodial in placement, rigid, erect-linear, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 2.6 to 3.8" [6.5 to 9.5 cm] long, dense, cylindrical, 13 to 15 flowered inflorescence with erect, concave, conduplicate, twisted, triangular-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, lower ones longer than the ovary, floral bracts.

"Habenaria nogeirana is separated from H. pseudofilifera by the elliptic and obtusely oblanceolate, acuminate leaves with a maximum of 1.4 to 2.04" [3.5 to 5.1 cm] long and .64 to 1.04" [1.6 to 2.6 cm] widea dense raceme with the posterior sepal suborbicular suborbicular-ovate or ovate, obtuse, minutely mucronate and .2 to .26" [5 to 6.5 mm] long and 1.36 to 1.84" [3.4 to 4.6 mm] wide, the lateral sepals are oblique deltoid-ovate or ovate with the apex attenuated and acute-rounded to obtuse, .18 to .3" [4.5 to 7.5 mm] long and .12 to .194" [3 to 4.9 mm] wide, the posterior lobe is triangular-falcate and the anterior lobe is rounded or subobtuse, the lateral lobes of the lip are .34 to .408" [8.5 to 10.2 mm] long and .02 to .04" [0.5 to 1 mm] wide, with a central lobe at the distal end slightly attenuated, subobtuse or acute and .26 to .36" [6.5 to 9 mm] long amd .032 to .048" [0.8 to 1.2 mm] wide, attenuated, acuminate and with a calcareous base." R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2006

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 14(1-2): 28-31.R.González & Cuev.-Fig 2007 Drawing fide

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