Habenaria pseudofilifera R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2006 publ. 2007

TYPE Drawing by © R.González & Cuev.-Figeroa and The Epidendra Website

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Common Name The False Filifera Habenaria [refers to its similarity to H filifera]

Flower Size

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in pine/oak forests as a small sized terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 5 to 8, conduplicate, cauline, extended below, becoming erect and then adpressed to wards the apex, lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, erect, lax, cylindrical, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, 8 to 14 flowered inflorescence with longer than the ovary below to the same above, erect, conduplicate, lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

"Habenaria pseudofilifera is distinguished from H. filifera by the plant size from 8.4 to 11.2" [21 to 28 cm] tall; the conduplicated leaves, spread below, below erect, finally adpressed, almost all rectilinear, the first two reduced to cuculated sheaths, the next develops a small lamina, ovate below or ovad-lanceolate, the largest lanceolate, acuminate, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, .32 to .44" [0.8 to 1.1 cm] wide; The floral bracts below exceeds the ovary, above theyare equal, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, the dorsal sepal ovad-lanceolate, acute, .32" [8 mm] long, .16" [4 mm] wide; the lanceolate, acuminate lateral sepals about .32" [8 mm] long, .08" [2mm] wide; the acuminate, posterior lobe of the petals .26" [6.5 mm] long, .04" [1 mm] wide, the anterior lobe .32" [8 mm] long, .016" [0.4 mm] wide; the lateral lobes of the labellum about .48" [12 mm] long, .016" [0.4 mm] wide; the attenuated front, acute middle lobe about .032" [. 9 mm] long, .06" [1.5 mm] wide; nectary with the distal part a little dilated and the rostellar arms and anthera canals antrorse. Habenaria pseudofilifera has been confused with H filifera but the second one differs by plant from 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] high; the erect, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or oblong-ovate leaves 1 to 1.5" [2.5 to 3.75 cm] long, .048 to .016" [1.2 to 1.4 cm] wide; acuminate floral bract almost as long as the flowers, the suborbicular or ovate dorsal sepal, apex contracted, obtuse, mucronate, .15 to .24" [4 to 6 mm] long, .18" [4.5 mm] wide; the subfalcate or lanceolate, acute lateral sepals .312" [7.8 mm] long, .124" [3.1 mm] wide; the oblong, triangular, falcate, posterior lobe of the petals are .2" [5 mm] long, .056" [1.4 mm] wide, the anterior segment arched, .24" [6 or more mm] long, .02" [0.5 mm] wide; the side lobes of the labellum .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long,with an acute middle lobe, .36" [9 mm] long, .04" [1 mm] wide and the anther channels and the descending rostellar arms are very short." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 14(1-2): 33-35. .González & Cuev.-Figeroa 2007 drawing fide

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 96 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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