Habenaria bicornis Lindl. 1835 SECTION Macroceratitae Kraenzl.
Photo by © Joao Batista and The Research Gate Website
Drawing by © The Kew Herbaria Website
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EARLIER 
Common Name The Two Horned Habenaria [Refers to the 2 processes at the base of the lip]
Flower Size
Found in Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio provinces of Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama province of Panama, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil in freshwater swamps and savannahs, sandy pinelands and grassy hillsides at elevastions of 5 to 350 meters as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrrying lanceolate, plicate, 3 nerved leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal erect, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, floral bracts.
"Similar to H repens but the anterior petals lobes of it are falcately upcurved while H bicornis has them constantly pending." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 309 Lindley 1835;
Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 249 A Rich. 1850 as H tricuspis
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 4 Ames 1910;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 7 Ames 1922;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946;
Catalogo Descriptiva de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama and Costa Rica Dressler 1993;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Orchids of Cuba Larramendi & Llamacho 2005;
LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 165—184. Batista, Proite1, Carvalho1, Vale & Felix 2014
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 130 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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