Habenaria parviflora Lindl. 1835 SECTION Pentaceras [Thou] Schlechter 1915 Photos by © José A. Radins Argentina

Common Name The Small Flowered Habenaria

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Guinea?, Guyana, Surinam?, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an underground tuber giving rise to an erect, slender stem enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths carrying narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, dorsally carinate, plicate, 3 to 5 nerved leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, racemose, many flowered, 4" [10 cm] long, inflorescence carrying very small flowers for the genus.

Synonyms Habenaria angulosa Barb.Rodr. 1881; Habenaria caaguazuensis Cogn. 1906 publ. 1907; Habenaria demerarensis Rchb.f. ex M.R.Schomb. 1841; Habenaria edentula Schltr. 1930; Habenaria inconspicua Cogn. 1907; Habenaria montevidensis f. parviflora (Lindl.) Pabst 1957; Habenaria pariquerensis Hoehne 1937; Habenaria parviflora f. robusta Hoehne 1936; Habenaria paulensis Porsch 1905; Habenaria reichenbachiana Barb.Rodr. 1877; Habenaria montevidensis f. reichenbachiana (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969;