Habenaria bauerlenii F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1893 SECTION Macroceratitis F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1893
Drawing by © Howcroft
Drawing of H chlorolueca by © Schlechter
Common Name Bauerlen's Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea and New Ireland in rainforest and in forest and cliffs in the rivers valleys, found also in pine forest. at elevations around 10 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, basally leafy stem carrying several, erect-patent, oblanceolate, acute leaves grading above to 3, lanceolate to ovate, acute, sterile bracts that blooms in the winter and again in the summer on an erect, terminal, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, laxly many-flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate., shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying s white flowers or white flowers with greenish sepals and pure white petals and lip.
"Habenaria baeuerlenii is a very easily distinguishable species due to cuneate-rhomboid lateral lobes of lip, not present in any other New Guinean species." Kolanowska etal 2021
Synonyms Habenaria chloroleuca Schltr. 1905; Habenaria turneri R.S.Rogers 1925; Habenaria viridialba P.F.Hunt 1970; Pecteilis bauerlenii (F.Muell. & Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Peristylus turneri (R.S.Rogers) W.Kittr. 1984 publ. 1985; Plantaginorchis chloroleuca Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 488 F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1893;
Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee, Nachtr.: 77 Schlechter 1905 as H chlorolueca;
Orchidaceae of German New Guinea :65 Schlechter 1912 as Habenaria chloroleuca
Orchidaceae of German New Guinea :72 Schlechter 1912 as Habenaria chloroleuca Drawing fide;
Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 49: 254 R S Rogers 1925 as H turneri;
Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3 J J Smith 1928 as H chlorolueca;
Kew Bull. 24: 75 P F Hunt 1970 as H viridilabia;
A Guide to the Monocotyledons of Papua New Guinea Part 4 Orchidaceae [in Part] Howcroft 1984 as H viridialba drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30: 95 W Kittr. 1984 publ. 1985 as Peristylis turneri
Richardiana 4: 64 Szlach 2004 as Plantaginorchis chloroleuca; nom. superfl.
Checklist of papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis bauerlenii;
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