Habenaria heleogena Schltr. 1919 SECTION Seticauda

Drawing by © Hoehne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

Common Name The Swamp Occuring Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais and Parana states of Brazil as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, robust, strict to substrict, leafy stem carrying 8 to 10, erect-patent, oblong-ligulate, obtuse to acute, glabrous leaves that grade into bracts above that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, to 10" [25 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish, glabrous flowers.

Similar to H odontopetala but clearly distinguished by its habit and the shape of the flower

Synonyms Habenella heleogena (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides heleogena (Schltr.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 253 Schlecher 1919

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

Richardiana 4: 106 Szlach. 2004 as Platantheroides heleogena

Richardiana 6: 36 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006 as Habenella heleogena

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