Habenaria entomantha (Lex.) Lindl. 1835 SECTION Guilleminii
Photo/Drawing by © ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 and The Herbario AMO Website
Scan by © the George B Hinton Herbarium
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Club-Carrying Habenaria
Flower Size .72 to .88" [1.8 to 2.2 cm] long
Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Santander, Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Risaralda, Valle de Cauca and Caucadepartments of Colombia and Venezuela in open areas, roadsides, swamps and wet forests at elevations of 2200 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a subterranean tuber giving rise to a leafy stem enveloped completely by imbicate, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 4 to 6, green, acuminate, distichous, basally ovate-elliptic becoming lanceolate above, ascending to extended and recurved above, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, racemose, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence and carrying brilliant white flowers.
More than one author considers H. filifera to be synonymous with Habenaria entomantha , I don't know how it will be able to know for certain as long as there is no certainty as to to the true identity of H entomantha, which, according to the authors, are found together with the species of white flowers in the state of Michoacán. No specimens were found that could be determined with certainty as H. entomantha; the species that is mentioned as that species (NAYARIT; TEPIC: La Batea, pine and oak forest, 1440 meters above sea level, August 4, 1996, S Alvarado et al. s.n.) its whereabouts are unknown. Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
"Similar to H quinqueseta in habit the lateral lobes longer than the middle one and the petals anterior lobe prominently longer than the posterior one. They are separated by spur length, in H entomantha it is [17 mm] and is subequal to the ovary and longer than 1.6" [40 mm] and longer thna the ovary in H quinqueseta." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Habenaria acutiflora A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Habenaria moritzii Ridl. 1887; *Orchis entomantha Lex. 1825;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Nov. Veg. Descr. 2(Orchid. Opusc.): 8 LLave & Lex 1825 as Orchis entomantha
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 311 Lindley 1835; Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 28 A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 as Habenaria acutiflora
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 242 Ames 1910
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 242 Ames 1910 drawing ok;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H moritzii drawing ok;
Orchids of Guatemala : 34 Ames & Correl 1952; Venezuelan Orchids Illustraed vol 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1961 drawing not = H armata; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing not = H armata; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing fide/photo ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = H armata; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 0761 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 drawing hmm?/photo hmm H armata???; Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama and Costa Rica Dressler 1993 photo not?; ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing fide; Orquideas da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 = H subviridis; Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 233 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 139 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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