Habenaria greenwoodiana R.González 1998 publ. 2000 SECTION Seticauda

Drawing by J. R. González and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

EARLY

Common Name Greenwood's Habenaria [Canadian botanist in Mexico 1919 - 2002

Flower Size

Found in Jalisco and Mexico states of Mexico in holm oak and pine forest and oak in humid ravines and adjacent slopes; of 490 to 1400 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing, herbaceous terrestrial with an extended, flattened, stipited, cuneate, 2 x.08" [5 cm long, 2 cm] in diameter, with uneven wrinkles throughout the surface, the new tuber does not form next to it but a little higher up in the rhizome giving rise to a stiff in appearance, emerald green erect, leafy stem. carrying 13 to 20, leathery, the basals reduced to five sheaths imbricate, slightly inflated at the apex, they occupy more or less than 8.8" [22 cm] in the basal part of the stem, the largest occur suddenly in the middle part and then they gradually decrease and resemble floral bracts, the last ones erect; arched, conduplicated plate, oblique, elliptical, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, acuminate, dark green leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, a cylindrical cluster, 6.4 to 8.28" [16 to 20.7 cm] long, .84 to 2" [2.1 to 5 cm] in diameter, rachis striated, the veins crested, successively single, 30 to 40 flowered inflorescence with conduplicate, ovate- lanceolate, acuminate, three nerved, bifid lateral nerves, lax, clasping, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts

"Habenaria greenwoodiana differs from H. luzmariana by the latter the plants and the flowers that are greenish-yellow; the broad petals at the base, almost always are provided on the anterior side of a small atrium; the lateral sepals show the reverse when the flower is seen from the front; the labellum has entire and smooth margins at the apex; in addition of other differences in the column that can be seen in the corresponding drawings." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bol. Inst. Bot. Univ. Guadalajara 6: 204 R.González 1998 publ. 2000

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