
Habenaria graciliscapa Barb.Rodr. 1877 SECTION Guilleminii Drawing by © Cogniaux
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Common Name The Graceful Inflorescence Habenaria
Flower Size 3/8" [8mm]
Found in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as a small to medium sized terrestrial with an erect, somewhat sinuous stem enveloped by small, imbricate, quasi-distichous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, about the length of the flower floral bract.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
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