Habenaria goyazensis Cogn. 1893 SECTION Leptoceras
Photos 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 © Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon
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Common Name The Goias Habenaria [A state in central Brazil]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Guyana and central Brazil in seasonally burned pastures and savannahs at elevations around 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a short, stout stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths carrying elongate, straight-lanceolate, long acuminate, plicate leaves decreasing in sized above that blooms in the late summer on an erect, 1.2 to 4.8" [3 to 12 cm] long, laxly to subdensely 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence with long-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
+"This is an uncommon species. In northern Brazil it is known only by a 127 years old collection by Jobert from the island of Marajó. In the " cerrado" the species grows in seasonally humid places. Flowers are mainly green, with the base of the petals and lip white. The name H. goyazensis was mistakenly applied by Hoehne (1940) and Pabst (Pabst & Dungs 1975) to the species now known as H longipedicellata (northern Brazil) and H tamanduensis (centralwest and southeastern Brazil). However, H. goyazensis has a short pedicel (ca. .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long) and a spur about twice the size of the pedicellate ovary, while H. longipedicellata and H. tamanduensis have markedly long pedicels (.6 to 1.2" [15 to 30 mm] long) and the spur and pedicellate ovary are about the same length."
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Fl. Bras. 3(4): 77 Cogn 1893
* Fl. Bras. 3(4): 77 Cogn 1893 as H moritzii;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing no = H longipedicellata;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing no = H longipedicellata;
Inventaire Taxonomique des Plantas de la Guyane Francaise II Les Orquidacees Cremers & Hoff 1992;
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;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1:152 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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