Habenaria culicina Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881 SECTION Nudae
Photos by © J. A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
Drawing by © Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
EARLY 
Common Name The Mosquito-Like Habenaria [refers to the flowers size]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia and DF, Goias and Minas Gerais states of Brazil in grasslands at elevations of 1050 to 2150 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, thin stem enveloped by straight, narrow, acute, strongly amplexicaul, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, 4 to 7, very small flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to H sprucei but differ in the spur shape. narrowly cylindrical, swollen in the apical haf, subblunt at the apex in the former versus narrowly cylindrical-clavate and blunt at the apex in the latter. A slightly shorter anterior petal lobe than the posterior one versus the anterior lobe as long as or shorter than the posterior one. and the lip lobed shortly above the base versus .024' [.06 mm] versus .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm]." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Habenaria mitomorpha Kraenzl. 1911; Habenaria rudolfi-schlechteri Hoehne 1937;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881;
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 11 Kraenzlin 1911 as H mitomorpha;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 126 Schlechter 1937 as Habenaria rudolfi-schlechteri
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing good;
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: 170 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
