Habenaria glaucophylla Barb.Rodr.1877 SECTION Humilis Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo 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 Hoehne
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EARLY 
Common Name The Glaucous Habenaria
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Bahia, Goias, DF, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco and Sao Paulo states of Brazil in gallery forests and dry forests as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a very short erect stem enveloped by 3 to 4, basal, rosulate, elliptic-oblong, apically abruptly acute and slightly cuspid, glaucous, membraneous, 5 nerved, attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 4 to 5 bracted, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, laxly 4 to 9 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms Habenaria epiphylla Rchb.f. 1881; Habenaria glaucophylla var. brevifolia Cogn. 1893
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 160 Barb Rodr. 1877
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as H epiphylla;
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 49 Cogniaux 1893
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 49 Cogniaux 1893 as H glaucophylla var. brevifolia
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;
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
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Habenaria glaucophylla var. brevifolia Cogn. 1893
Photos by © A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
A short leafed variety of the previous species that also has floral differences.
W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Fl. Bras. 3(4): 49 Cogniaux 1893 as H glaucophylla var. brevifolia
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