Habenaria gracilis Lindl. 1835

Drawing © by Hoehne

Common Name The Delicate Habenaria

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in southeastern Brazil as a medium to large sized terrestrial with somewhat sinuous, thin, few leaved stems carrying lanceolate-linear, three nerved, basally sheathing, almost flat leaves decreasing in size above into the bracts that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, rachis short to 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, with a few bract-like scales adpressed to the rachis, many flowered inflorescence with erect, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying whitish green flowers.

CAUTION !! Kew has this one as an Unplaced name as the name had been previously been used for another species described in 1824. To date it has not been placed with a new name. PLEASE USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION!!!!

Synonyms Bonatea gracilis Lindl. 1835

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 312 Lindley 1835 nom. illeg.

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 329 1835 as Bonetea gracilis

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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