Habenaria baeuerlenii F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1893 SECTION Acuiferae Drawing by © Howcroft
TYPE Drawing Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Baeuerlen's Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 400 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, basally leafy stem carrying several, erect-patent, oblanceolate, acute leaves grading above into 3, steril, lanceolate to ovate, acute 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 fd flwoered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white, or with greenish sepals and pure white petals and lip flowers.
"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 2011
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
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Habenaria chloroleuca Drawing fide; Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3 J J Smith 1928 as H chlorolueca; A Guide to the Monocotyledons of Papua New Guinea Part 4 Orchidaceae [in Part] Howcroft 1984 as H viridialba drawing fide;
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