Habenaria fuscina D.L.Jones 2002

TYPE Drawing by © D L Jones

Common Name The Trident Habenaria [refers to the shape of the lip]

Flower Size .24 to .4" [.6 to 1 cm] wide

Found in Queensland state of Australia on the Cape York Penninsula as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial in loose colonies with ovoid to obovoid, fleshy, somewhat irregular tubers giving rise to 2 to 3, obliquely erect to spreading, in a loose radical rosette, lanceolate, dark green, subacute leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, slender, wiry, provided with 5 to 8, sterile, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate bracts, 10 to 20" [20 to 35 cm] tall, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, just shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying well spaced green and white, fragrant flowers.

Similar to H praecox and H halata but differs in the much shorter, broadly obtuse, linear [non-tapered] median lobes of the lip, lateral lobes lobe of the lip remains relatively close to the mid lobe, the apex of the lip is truncate-lobate in shape and the eared column has a different shape.

Synonyms Pecteilis fuscina (D.L.Jones) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orchadian 13: 517 D L Jones 2002

Orchadian 13: 522 D L Jones 2002 drawing fide

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis fuscina

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