Habenaria parviflora Lindl. 1835 SECTION Leptoceras Photo by © José A. Radins Argentina
Drawings © by Hoehne
Common Name The Small Flowered Habenaria
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Guinea?, Guyana, Surinam?, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina in dry or humid savannahs 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 almost completely by leaf bearing sheaths carrying narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, dorsally carinate, plicate, 3 to 5 nerved, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, racemose, 7.6" [19 cm] long, rachis strongly grooved, glabrous laxly to subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, longer than the flower floral bracts and carrying green, very fleshy very small, flowers for the genus.
"Similar to H amalfitana in habit but H amalfitana has a shorter middle lobe of the lip, .12 to .18" [3 to 4.5 mm] long, a somewhat longer anterior petal lobe, less than .08" [2mm] versus .036 to .064" [.9 to 1.6 mm] long, with a blunt versus acute apex and a somewhat shorter spur .14 to .164" [3.5 to 4.1 mm] versus .18 to .2" [4.5 to 5 mm] long. H amalfitana has the lateral lobes of the lip and the anterior lobe of the petals apically pubescent or papillate." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Habenaria angulosa Barb.Rodr. 1881; Habenaria caaguazuensis Cogn. 1906 publ. 1907; Habenaria demerarensis Rchb.f. ex M.R.Schomb. 1841; Habenaria mello-leitonii Ruschi 1946; Habenaria montevidensis f. parviflora (Lindl.) Pabst 1957; Habenaria montevidensis f. reichenbachiana (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst 1957; Habenaria montevidensis var. tucumanensis Griseb. 1879; Habenaria pariquerensis Hoehne 1937; Habenaria parviflora f. robusta Hoehne 1936; Habenaria reichenbachiana Barb.Rodr. 1877;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 314 Lindley 1835
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 314 Lindley 1835 H montividensis nom. illeg
Fauna & Fl. Guy.: 1123 Rchb.f. ex M.R.Schomb. 1841 as H demerarensis nom. nud.
Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 340 Griseb 1879 as H montividensis var tucumanensis;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 159 Barb Rodr. 1877 as H reichenbachiana;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 258 Barb Rodr 1882 as H angulosa;
Flora Brasilica Vol 3 Part 4: 52 Cogniaux 1893; as H angulosa;
Flora Brasilica Vol 3 Part 4: Tab 11 fig 1 Cogniaux 1893 as H angulosa drawing fide ;
Flora Brasilica Vol 3 Part 4: 56 Cogniaux 1893; Flora Brasilica Vol 3 Part 4: 57 Cogniaux 1893 as H reichenbachiana; Flora Brasilica Vol 3 Part 4: Tab 8 fig 1 Cogniaux 1893 as H reichenbachiana drawing fide Flora Brasilica Vol 3 Part 4: 57 Cogniaux 1893 as H montivdensis; Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 277 Cogniaux 1906 publ. 1907 as H caaguazuensis;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 47 Venezuela Schlechter 1919; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 209 Colombia Schlechter 1920; Repert Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band 35:22 Rio Grande Do Sul Schlechter 1925; Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 12(3-4): 74 Hoehne 1936 as H parviflora f robusta Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 134 Hoehne 1937 as H pariquerensis; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H angulosa drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H pariquerensis drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H inconspicua drawing ok; Orquid. Nov. Estad. Espirito Santo: 25 Ruschi 1946 as H mello-leitonii Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 19: 84 Pabst 1957 as H montividensis fma parviflora; Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 19: 84 Pabst 1957 as H montividensis fma reichenbachiana; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H angulosa drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H mello-leitonii; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H inconspicua drawing good; Bradea 2: 118 Garay 1976 as H uruguayensis; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Venezuelan Orhids Illustrated Vol 6 1976 as H parviflora not = H gollemri; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 as H angulosa drawing/photo fide; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide; Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas sa Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 photo/drawing fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 192 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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