Habenaria perezii R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2010

TYPE Drawing by X M Cuevas F and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

LATE EARLIER

Common Name Perez's Habenaria [Mexican Orchid Enthusiast Jorge Alberto Pérez de la Rosa current]

Flower Size

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in open woods of pine/oak at elevations around 1960 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a descending, oblong-ovoid, smooth tuber giving rise to an erect, naked beteen the leaves, ribbed stem carrying 5 to 9, the first two reduced to sheaths, usually withered, leathery, rigid, the basal together, almost rosular wider and smaller, the first extended, next two ascending, to then erect, the last adpressed, with the apex retroflex, the recurved margins, gradually they resemble floral bracts; a triangular blade in the lower ones, then ovate-lanceolate, most lanceolate, acuminate, the first erect and all the that continue to ascend almost equal in length all with the underside silver, dark green on the upper surface, sometimes light green, furrowed leaves with three ribs elevated in carina, the prominent central carina, the carina and the glandular borders, hyaline that blooms in the late summer and earlier fall on an erect, terminal, striated spine, lightly zigzag, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, .8 to 1.2" [ 2 3 cm] in diameter, in a cylindrical cluster, not very dense, 8 to 25 flowered inflorescence with slightly conduplicate, with the edges recurved, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, green on both sides, with three ribs, the lateral ribs bifid, exceeds or equals the first flowers, in the last one equals or exceeds the ovary, floral bracts.

"Habenaria perezii is related to H minima but differs in that the floral bract exceeds or equals the ovary; segment posterior petals falcate, acute; lateral lobes of labellum descending; a pendant nectary, mostly free of the floral bract, slightly arched, linear-claviform. Habenaria perezii shares with H. minima a ; sepals obtuse; the anterior segment of petals and side lobes of the labellum longer than the posterior lobe and lobe central respectively. The angle between the locules of the anther and channels are similar." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 117 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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