Habenaria hassleriana Cogn. ex Chodat & Hassl. 1907 SECTION Leptoceras
Drawing © by Hoehne
TYPE Drawing and Collection sheet by © Jany Renz
Common Name Hassler's Habenaria [Co-collector of species 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Argentina and Paraguay at elevations of 100 to 450 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a velvety subterranean tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying erect pattent, 3 to 5 nerved, largest in the middle decreasing in size both above and below, lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, lanceolate, long-acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to H bractescens but H hassleriana differs in the petals with the anterior segment much shorter and narrower than the posterior one
Synonyms Habenaria fiebrigii Schltr. 1910
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 268 Cogn. ex Chodat & Hassl. 1907;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 24 Schlecheter 1910 as Habenaria fiebrigii
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide
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