Habenaria cryptophila Barb.Rodr. 1877 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
Drawing © by Hoehne
THROUGH EARLY 
Common Name The Shade Loving Habenaria [Poa do Caldas, a town in Minas Gerias]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Cusco departemtn of Peru and La Paz and Santa Cruz departments of Bolivia, Goias, DF, Minas Gerais, Tocantins, Paraiba and Pernambuco states of Brazil in gallery and dry forests at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, leafy throughout stem enveloped by imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths carrying, patent to erect, elliptic-oblong, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer through early fall on a terminal, erect, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate longer than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying green flowers.
Somewhat similar to H quinqueseta but separated by generally smaller flowers and a much shorter spur .88 [4.4 cm] versus 1.6 to 7.2" [4 to 18 cm] long. Also similar to H monorrhiza but separated by smaller flowers and the anterior/posdterior petal lobe ratio and the lip middle/lateral lobes ratio." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Habenaria anaplectron Rchb.f. & Warm.1881; Kusibabella cryptophila (Barb.Rodr.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 154 Barb Rodr. 1877
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia :51 Rchb.f 1881 H anaplectron;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Richardiana 4: 59 Szlach 2004 as Kusibabella cryptophila
Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 Sćo Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 photo;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 137 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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