Habenaria tequilana R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2006 publ. 2007

TYPE Drawing by © R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa and The Epidendra Website

Part shade Cool LATERSummer EARLY Fall

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

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in disturbed oak forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 8 to 10, cauline, coriaceous, the lowermost 3 to 4 sheath-like, the rest lanceolate, acuminate, grading smaller and narrower above leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, 1.2 to 3.83" [3 to 7.2 cm] long, 7 to 14 flowered inflorescence with conduplicate, shallowly concave, uncovers the ovary and spur, lanceolate, acuminate, the lowermost exceeds the ovary, above they are equal or shorter floral bracts

"Habenaria tequilana is related to H. atrata , but it is distinguished by the first three or four leaves reduced to sheaths or with a very short blade, then almost all of the same shape and size, the last one similar to the floral bracts, 1.28 to 1.4" [3.2 to 3.5 cm] long, .4 to .44" [1 to 1.1 cm] wide; the floral bract in the first flowers, .4 to .42" [10 to 13 mm] long, .16 to .28" [4 to 7 mm] wide; subobtuse, elliptical dorsal sepal with a tiny mucron, .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, .14 to .16" [3.5 to 4 mm] wide; the obovate-spatulate sepals .24" [6 mm] long, .08 to .1" [2 to 2.5 mm] wide; the posterior lobe of the petals oblique, oblong, attenuated at distal end, acute , .16 to .18" [4 to 4.5 mm] long, .02" [0.5 mm] wide; the anterior lobe cintiform, .3 to .32" [7.5 to 8 mm] long, .012 to .028" [0.3 to 0.7 mm] wide; blade of the labellum oblate, oblong; the side lobes .32 to .44" [8 to 11 mm] long, .04 to .016" [0.1 to 0.4 mm] wide; the middle earlobe attenuated at the end distal range, .28 to .312" [7 to 7.7 mm] long, .028 to .04" [0.7 to 1 mm] wide and the nectaries shorter than the ovary and almost as long as the labellum, claviform, acute, somewhat sigmoid, from .44 to .52" [11 to 13 mm] long, .028 to .044" [0.7 to 1.1 mm] wide. Habenaria tequilana somewhat resembles H. eatoniana but it has the following features that separate it: seven to nine leaves, the first two reduced to sheaths, almost flat, the largest located a little above the half, lanceolate, acuminate, from 1.68 to 2.28" [4.2 to 5.7 cm] long, .68 to .88" [1.7 to 2.2 cm] wide; the inflorescence in a sparse cluster, with about nine flowers; the floral bracts in the first flowers exceeds them, above they equal the ovary; the ovary with six carinas, sometimes a dorsal carina raised on the wing; attenuated dorsal sepal, .38 to .46" [9.5 to 11.5 mm] long, .18" [4.5 mm] wide; the lanceolate lateral sepals, .38 to .44" [9.5 to 11 mm] long, .08 to .14" [2 to 3.5 mm] wide; the posterior lobe of the petals oblique, and oblong-triangular, .36 to .4" [9 to 10 mm] long, .068 to .08" [1.7 to 2 mm] wide; the anterior lobe more or less equilongate; the blade of the labellum is .04" [1 mm] long;the lateral lobes of labellum .44 to .52" [11 to 13 mm] long, .028 to .04" [0.7 to 1 mm] wide; the medium lobe oblong, high-pitched,.44" [11 mm] long, .06 to .072" [1.5 to 1.8 mm] wide and arcuate, linear-cylindrical, very slightly dilated in the distal part, acuminate, .8" [20 mm] long,.04" [1 mm] wide. See discussion in Habenaria aguirrei." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 14(1-2): 35-37. R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2007 drawing fide;

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 98 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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