Habenaria heleogena Schltr. 1919 SECTION Seticauda Drawing by © Hoehne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

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, leafy stem carrying erect-patent, oblong-ligulate, obtuse to acute, glabrous leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, to 10" [25 cm] long, many flowereed inflorescence.

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

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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