Habenaria galeandriformis Hoehne 1937 SECTION Nudae
Drawing © by Hoehne
Drawing by © Hatschbach 34075, MBM
Drawing by © Hoenhe and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Common Name The Galeandra-Like Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil in dry grassy fields at elevations of 150 to 700 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 12 to 13, adpressed to the stem, largest at the centere, linear, narrrow leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 6 to 7.2" [15 to18 cm] long, loosely 14 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate to lanceolate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small green flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 128 Hoehne 1937
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
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