Habenaria cualensis R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2010

TYPE Drawing by Jorge Roberto González Tamayo and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

EARLIER

Common Name The Cuale Habenaria [A town near to where the species was discovered]

Flower Size

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in humid ravines, among pine needles in rich humus, in pine forest at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a vertical, oblong-elliptic tuber giving rise to an erect, thin, leafy throughout stem carrying 9, the lower ones extended and imbricate, with the apex reflex, when ascending they become more distant, erect, the last ones similar to floral bracts, the widest in the lower part, acute or suddenly acuminated, the upper acuminate; elliptical to lanceolate lamina, trinerved, the current nerves like carinas, the short, infundibuliform sheath, colored green with blue hue leaves that blooms in the earlier fall in a loose raceme, ca. .26" [6.5 cm] long, 1.2" [3 cm] long diameter, ten to twelve flowered inflorescence with conduplicate and somewhat crooked, with the apex incurved, cuneate, lanceolate, acuminate, heptanerved, fleshy, keel and glandular margined, longer than the ovary floral bracts

"Habenaria cualensis is related with H. minima but istinguished by larger plants 8 to 9.4" [20 to 23.5 cm] high); an erect dorsal sepal, ca.de .24" [6 mm] long, .2" [5 mm] wide; subsquare labellum blade, .04" [1 mm] long, .06" [1.5 mm] wide; erect, arched column; rectangular stigmatic processes; canals of the anther exceed the stelidia by .052" [1.3 mm], incurved, almost collateral to the column, with the locule forming a letter-shaped curve Or; caudicules acinaciform; The specimens dry in emerald green color. In turn, Habenaria minima has plants of 1.6 to 5.6" [4 14 cm] high; subextended dorsal sepal, .18" {4.5 mm] long, .14 to .16" [3.5 to 4 mm] wide; blade of the labellum obtrapeziform, very short; underextended spine; subsquare stigmatic processes; channels of the anthers exceed stelidids by .l02" [0.5 mm], barely incurved; cauticles dilated at the base, arched, .04 to .056" [1 to 1.4 mm] long ." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 127 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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