Habenaria quinqueseta (Michx.) Eaton 1829
En situ Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Edouard Faria ©
and EARLY 
Common Name The Five Bristled Habenaria - Longhorn False Reinorchid
Flower Size
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Cuba and Jamaica on hillsides and open slopes, grasslands, tropical deciduous forests or oak forests as a at elevations of 150 to 1750 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with a small basal tuber giving rise to a stout, stem that is leafy at or above the middle with the lower leavees diminishing in size and carrying several, ovate or elliptic, acute or short-acuminate, basally clasping, articulate to the sheaths leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a rather loosely few to 35 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.
Synonyms *Orchis quinqueseta Michx. 1803
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo Galaciana McVaugh 1985
Habenaria quinqueseta var. macroceratitis (Willd.) Luer 1972
Plant in situ Jalisco Mexico Photos courtesy of Edouard Faria ©
Differs from the type in the longer spur. Found in Florida, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venzuela, French Guiana, Surinam and Guyana
Synonyms Habenaria habenaria (L.) Small 1903; Habenaria macroceras Spreng. 1826; *Habenaria macroceratitis Willd. 1805; Nemuranthes habenaria (L.) Raf. 1837; Orchis habenaria L. 1759
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; *Native Orchids of Florida Luer 1972
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