Habenaria brevilabiata A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © Cicero 76 and The Naturalista Website
Drawing by © Jorge Roberto González Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Short Lipped Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca y Sinaloa states of Mexico in humid oak forests at elevations around 1600 to 1950 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a glabrous, leafy stem carrying lanceolate, to oblong-lanceolate, acute, grading smaller above, arising from loose sheaths below leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, a bit shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Habenaria brevilabiata is related with H. alata , a terrestrial species, but this one is an epiphyte or a terrestrial. It is also distinguished by its ovary with wings or angles and sepals with a conspicuous mucron, a nectary a bit shorter than the ovary; the stelda are not descended to the stigmatic processes and by others details, for example, the subpatent labellum and the channels of the anther are shorter." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Synonyms Habenella brevilabiata (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides brevilabiata (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 29 A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 drawing fide;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae McVaugh 1985;
Richardiana 4: 104 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides brevilabiata
Richardiana 6: 34 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006 as Habenella brevilabiata;
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;
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