Habenaria henscheniana Barb.Rodr.1877 SECTION Leptoceras
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Photos by © J. A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
Drawing by © Pabst
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Common Name Henschen's Habenaria [Swedish Orchid Collector in Brazil later 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais, Parana, Rio do Sul and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, stout stem enveloped by leafless and grading above into leaf bearing sheaths carrying linear, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late summer through early fall on an erect, terminal, 8 to 16" [20 to 40 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, three nerved, erect-patent floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 157 Barb Rodr. 1877;
Engl Bot Jahrb 16 : 127 Kraenzlin 1892
Flora Brasilica vol 3 part 4 : 85 Cogniaux 1893;
Orchidacearum genera et species Vol 1: 306 Kraenzlin 1901
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing NOT!!!!;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 Sćo Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 photo
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