Habenaria secunda Lindl. 1835 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing © by Hoehne
Common Name The Secund Habenaria
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying towards the base sheaths becoming oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 5 nerved, obtuse to acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, 1.2 to 6" [3 to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with long-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the flowers floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria estrellensis Rchb.f. 1850; Habenaria secunda var. estrellensis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 307 Lindley 1835
Linnaea 22: 813 Rchb.f 1850 as H estrellensis
Otia Bot. Hamburg. 2: 51 Rchb.f 1881 as H secunda var. estrellensis
Flora Brasilense Vol 3 Part 4 Cogniaux 1892
Engl. Bot Jahrb. 16: 123 kraenzlin 1892
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 122 Hoehne 1940
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: tab 73 Hoehne 1940 drawing hmm to photo;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 123 Hoehne 1940 as H secunda var estrellensis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: tab 73 fig a Hoehne 1940 as H secunda var estrellensis drawing hmm to photo;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas sa Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 photo/drawing fide;
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