Habenaria carvajaliana R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004 publ. 2006 SECTION Clypeatae Drawing by © González & Cuevas-Figueroa and The Epidendra WebSite

partial sun Cold Summer

Common Name Carvajal's Habenaria [Mexican Botanist and Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in grass in pine forest openings at elevations around 2100 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a descending, wrinkled tuber giving rise to an erect, leafy throughout stem carrying 8, cauline, alternate, subopposite, imbricate, erect, almost adpressed, the middle 5 or so, largest, round to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, angular, semi-cylindrical, lax to 2.6" [6.5 cm], 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with conduplicate, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

" H clypeata is similar but H caracajaliana differs in the erect to spreading leaves, the anterior segment of the petals are as long as the posterior segement, the lateral lobes of the lip are equal to or a bit longer than the median lobe amd the canals of the and anther arms of the rostellum as slightly descending. H carajaliana is also similar to H lactiflora but differs in the somewhat arucate leaves, the floral bract with a very lax, reticulate, prominent keel, subextendeed sepals, a more arcuate nectary that is fusiform to the distal portion, the canals of the antera are .01" [2.5 mm] long, , a bit arcuate and equal tothe arms of the rostellum and the stigmatic processes are fused at the base and atteneuate to both sides." R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 12(2): 19-22. González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004 drawing fide

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 176 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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