Habenaria ciliatisepala J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch. 2008 publ. 2009 SECTION Nudae
TYPE Photos/TYPE Drawing by © J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch and Kew Bull. 63(3): 449 J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch 2008 Published 2009
Common Name The Ciliate Sepal Habenaria
Flower Size .2" [.5 cm]
Found in Bahia, Minas Gerais, the Federal district and Goias states of Brazil in seasonally dry humid grasslands usually on slopes and son etimes with rock outcroppings at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying 11 to 15, lowermost sheath-like, largest at the vcenter of the stem, spreading, lanceolate, leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 2.4 to 5.2" [6 to 13 cm] long, congested, 25 to 53 flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, green flowers.
"Distinctive features of H. ciliatisepala are the leaves not appressed to the stem, subspreading, lanceolate, the densely and many flowered inflorescence, the conspicuously ciliate margins of the sepals, the anterior petal reduced to a tooth-like appendage, and the lip deeply tripartite. Combined, these characters render H. ciliatisepala a distinct species but its exact affinities are unknown." J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch 1998
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 63(3): 449 J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch 2008 Published 2009 drawing/photo fide;
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