Habenaria sartor Lindl. 1843 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl.
Drawing by © Foldats
Collection sheet and Drawings by © Renz
Common Name The Round Lobed Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela at elevations of 175 to 200 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized hot growing terrestrial with an erect, more or less robust, glabrous stem carrying 5 to 8 grass-like, erect patent, linear oblong to lanceolate, acute, conspicuously 3 to 5 nerved, carinate beneath, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 1.2 to 5.2" [3 to 13 cm] long, laxly 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with lnceolate, longly acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying erect-patent. small flowers.
CAUTION This species has often been put as a synonym of H macronectar but they are quite different. H sartor differs in being one of the tallest Habenaria and each flower segment can reach up to .8" [2 cm] long, as much as in H longicaudata but the spur is promenently shorter 5.28" [12.7 cm] versus 8" [20 cm] in hH longicaudata, the pedicellate ovary is longer 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm], and the posterior lobe of the petal is .56 x .072 versus .6 to .8" x .06 [1.5 to 2 cm] x .06 to .12" [1.5 to 3 mm] respectively." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
It is a variable species and for that reason I have offered various drawings.
Synonyms Kusibabella sartor (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004
References > W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* London J. Bot. 2: 662 Lindley 1843
Repert Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band 35 Rio Grande Do Sul Schlechter 1925;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Vol 1 Lasser/Foldats 1969 drawing fide;
Richardiana 4: 61 Szlach 2004 as Kusibabella sartor
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 226 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kusibabella sartor drawing fide
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