Habenaria smithii Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pentadactylae Urban

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Common Name Smith's Habenaria [Original Collector of species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Santa Marta department of Colombia as a medium sized terrestrial with a subflexous stem carrying 4 to 6, terete, glabrous, erect-patent to suberect, linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, laxly few flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, erect, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying medium sized, yellowish green flowers.

"Similar to H lehmannniana but has smaller flowers a shorter spur and a different fdorm of the petals, lip and rostellum. Esapecially interesating is the rostellum, H smithii is deeply 3 dentate with all teeth acute, whereas H lehmanniana is shallowly 3 dentate with blunt teeth. Batista etal 2011 considered this species to be conspecific with H trifida but in H smithii the spur is blunt not bifid at the apex." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms Rhinorchis smithii [Schltr.] Szach. & Kolan. 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 38 Schlechter 1920

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: tafel 9 #33 Mansfield 1929 Drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 211 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Rhinorchis smithii drawing fide

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