Habenaria gollmeri Schltr. 1919 SECTION Micranthae
Photos By © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing By © Foldats
Drawing by © Culbertson and Dodson Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 388 1980
Common Name Gollmer's Habenaria [German Botanist 1800's Original Collector of species]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Amazonas, Antioquia, , Boyaca, Cauca, Cundinamarca departments of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in very wet montane forests, subparamo and montane shrubs at elevations of 1300 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy in the apical half stem carrying lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, basally clasping, decreasing in size upwards, acute to sub-acuminate leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, terminal, cylindric, to 9.6" [24 cm] long, often much shorter, sub-densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards, as long as the ovary to rarely longer floral bracts.
H gollmeri is a very variable species and can have flower segments varying within the same inflorescence. H armata is similar but separated by the spur length and form. which is .6" [15 mm] long , filiform and apically dilated in H gollmeri and to .36" [9 mm] long, narrowly cylindrical and sligfhtly swollen below the middle and subacute in H armata. Also similar to H macroceratitis but separated by the spur length which is much shorter in H gollmeri. H roraimensis is also similar but H gollmeri differs in the shorter anterior and posterior petal lobes.
Synonyms Habenaria moritzii Ridl. 1886
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Timehri 5: 206 Ridley 1886 as H moritzii;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 27 Schlechter 1919;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 47 Colombia Schlechter 1920;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57: taf 1-3 Figuren Atlas Schlechter 1929 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 1976 as H parviflora not = H gollemri drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 388 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988;
Orchids Zenghong, Qital, Zhizhou, Kalyong and Heng 1993 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 2001 drawing fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok?;
Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo ok;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 154 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide
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