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

Drawing by © R.González & Cuev.-Fig and The Epidendra WebPage

Common Name The ? Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in lowlands in pastures among grasses on flat terrain as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a subglobose to ovoid, smooth to finely hairy tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying to 8, basal leaves longer, ovate, acute, recurved margins, the median elliptic, acuminate and the apical adpressed, lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes with an inconspicuous apicule, 5 nerved leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, slightly dense, 2.32" to 3.6" [5.8 to 9.7 cm] long, 12 to 17 flowered inflorescence.

Habenaria agrestis is similar to H. nogeiranna but differs in the open, ovate, pointed basal leaves to semi-erect elliptical, pointed at the apex, appressed leaves that blooms on a larger 1.9-4.7 cm long 1.4-1.9 cm wide, densely few flowered inflorescence. Each posterior suborbicular-ovate sepal is 4 mm long by 4 mm wide, the posterior lobe of the oblong petals are 4 mm long and the anterior linear-filiform lobe is 8 mm long by 0.6 mm wide, the claw label is 1 mm long and the lateral linear-filiform oblong lobes of central lobe are bluntly different.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 14(1-2): 45-49. R.González & Cuev.-Fig 2007 drawing fide;

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 111 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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