Habenaria guadalajarana S.Watson 1887
Plant in situ Neuvo Leon Mexico
Photos by © Carlos Velazco Macias
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Common Name The Guadalajara Habenaria [A City in the state of Jalisco Mexico]
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Found in Chiihuahua, Diego, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Michoacan, Puebla, Oaxaca, Guererro, Mexico, DF, Moreles, Nuevo Leon, Hidalgo, Vera Cruz, and Chiapas states of Mexico and Guatemala on grasslands, grassy hillsides and openings in oak and pine-oak forests at elevations of 1000 to 2700 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a small tuber giving rise to an erect, glabrous, leafy stem carrying lower elliptic, middle ovate and upper lanceolate, spreading to sometimes adpressed, sometimes conduplicate, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, racemose, to 5" [to 12.5 cm] long, loosely few to 20 flowered inflorescence with conduplicate basally, lanceolate to ovate, acuminate floral bracts.
"Habenaria guadalajarana is distinguished by plants less than 12" [30 cm] tall, yellowish; erect leaves; dense cluster with numerous imbricate flowers; floral bracts below exceed the flowers, in the upper part equal to the ovary; segment anterior petals shorter than posterior lobe; lateral lobes of labellum ascending on flower, they exceed the middle lobe and the anterior lobe of the petals; central lobe lineartriangular and nectarius claviform, rounded, ca. .4" [10 mm] long." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Synonyms *Corallorhiza grandiflora A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Hexalectris grandiflora f. luteoalba P.M.Br. 2006; Hexalectris mexicana Greenm. 1903; Neottia grandiflora (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 drawing good; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985 ist specimen = H atrata;
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 128 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 ; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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