Habenaria paivaeana Rchb.f. 1878 SECTION Leptoceras

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Common Name The Paiva Habenaria [A town in Minas Gerais]

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]

Found in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina in open grassy paramo at elevations around 2500 to 3100 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a small, ovoid to oblong tuber giving rise to an erect, rounded to angular, leafy below stem carrying basally clasping, lanceolate, acute, erect, rather thin leaves that decrease in size towards the apex and blooms in the later spring on a more or less elongate, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, rather laxly many flowered inflorescence with broadly oblong, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts

"Similar to H clypeata, H boliviana and H pumila but differs from all three however, through rather subtle characteriztics. H clypeata is Mexican, H pumila is from Argentina and Chile and only H boliviana would seriously be considered, but it has much smaller flwoers." Schlechter 1905 as H chloceras

Synonyms Habenaria chloroceras Kraenzl. 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Xenia Orchid. 3: 17 Rchb.f 1878

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 1: 89 Schlechter 1905 as H chloroceras;

Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII: 56 Peru Schlechter 1921

Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII: 120 Peru Schlechter 1921as H chloroceas;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;

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