Habenaria odontopetala Rchb. f. 1844

Plant and Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Cheryl B. McDonald

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Common Name The Toothed Rein Orchis - The Toothed Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Florida, Mexico, Belize, El SAlvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil and Paraguay at elevations of 900 to 1850 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial in damp hardwood hammocks with a stem enveloped completely by 5 to 12, glossy green, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves from which a terminal, 2' [60 cm] long, several to many flowered [10 to 60], racemose inflorescence with basal leaf sheaths and linear-elliptic floral bracts and flowers that have an unpleasant odor which blooms in the fall through late winter.

Synonyms Habenaria floribunda Lindl. 1835; Habenaria garberi Porter 1880; Habenaria herzogii Schltr. 1913; Habenaria strictissima var. odontopetala (Rchb. f.) L.O. Williams 1939; Habenella garberi (Porter) Small 1903; Habenella odontopetala (Rchb.f.) Small 1933; Platanthera garberi (Porter) Chapm. 1897; Platantheroides floribunda (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004; Platantheroides herzogii (Schltr.) Szlach. 2004; Platantheroides odontopetala (Rchb.f.) Szlach 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as H floribunda; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 763 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1535 Atwood 1993; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

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