Habenaria brachyplectron Hoehne & Schltr. 1926 SECTION Leptoceras
Drawing © by TYPE Hoehne
Type Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Short-Spurred Habenaria
Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]
Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a large to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous, laxly leafy stem carrying erect to slightly patent, lanceolate-ligulate to narrowly lanceolate, acute, largest in the middle, decreasing in size above and below leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, to 9.2" [23 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, erect-patent, slightly longer than the ovary below and shorter than above floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 173 Hoehne & Schltr 1926
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
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