Pterichis habenarioides (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Acraea
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Francisco Tobar and his Ecuador Orchid FLickr Website
Photo by © Leon Glicenstein
Common Name The Habenaria-Like Pterichis
Flower Size 3/4" [1.9 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador in cloud forests on rock faces in sandy soils at elevations of 2700 to 3300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial on verticle cliff walls with a single ? [drawing shows 2], narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, tapering below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf not present at blooming, that blooms in the spring on an erect, pubescent, loosely to subdensely, 4 to 15 flowered, racemose inflorescence remotely several sheathed and with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous to occasionally sparingly puberulent especially near the margins floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Goodyera habenarioides F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Pterichis costaricensis Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 3 1984 as P costaricensis photo fide; Orquideologia Vol XVI No 3 Morales 1986 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as the genus; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing ok; Synopsis of Ecuadorian Pterichis [Orchidaceae] Kolanowska 2021 Drawing/collection sheet fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;
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