Habenaria achnantha Rchb.f. 1850 SECTION Leptoceras Photo by © Izabel Miller

Drawing Drawing by © Hoehne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

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Common Name The ?Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in high mountain fields at elevations over 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a oblong, obtuse at the ends tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 4 to 5, lanceolate, deeply keeled, shiny, dark green leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, erect, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, rachis to 3.6" [9 cm] long, 9 to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as to shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Habenaria achnantha var. gracilior Cogn. 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H acnantha var gracilior; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing/photo fide; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide

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