Habenaria talaensis R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2007 TYPE Drawing by © R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa and The Epidendra Website

Part sun Cool LATE Summer EARLY Fall

Common Name The Tala Habenaria [A town in Jalisco Mexico]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in open areas of oak/pine forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid to sub-spherical tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 5 to 9, cauline, the lowermost, sheath-like, becoming, membraneous, lanceolate, acuminate above and then grading smaller and intothe bracts above leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, cylindric, 1.4 to 5.8" [3.5 to 14.5 cm] long, 9 to 28 flowered inflorescence with basally conduplicate, slightly longer than the ovary, lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat longer to equal to the ovary floral bracts.

"Habenaria talaensis is related to H. diffusa but the following characters separate them from it: rising flowers, directed downwards; posterior segment of the petals triangular, acute, about .24" [6 mm] long, .04" [1 mm] wide; the anterior linear segment, attenuated from the base, acuminate, .044" [.11 mm] long,.024" [0.6 mm] wide at the base; labellum side lobes with the distal part ascending or incurved, threadlike, attenuated, acuminate, .44" [11 mm] long; the median lobe linear-triangular, acute, .36" [9 mm] long, .04" [1 mm] wide, glandular at the margins; nectary longer than the ovary, in natural position almost reflexive, linear-claviform, the distal part little dilated, ca .68" [1.7 cm] long." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 14(1-2): 43-45. R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2007 drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 108 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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