Habenaria herminioides Kraenzl. 1911 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl
Drawing by © Krol
Common Name The Herminium-Like Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Magdalena and Santander departments of Colombia at elevations around 1675 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 4 basal, in a rosette, oblong-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, acute leaves grading to bracts above that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 1.6 to 4" [4 to 10 cm] long, laxly 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence with longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yeelow green flowers with cream to green petals.
Similar to H distans , H cogniauxiana and H millei which all have a basal rosette of leaves. The spur of H herminoides and H millei are more or less narrowly subclavate, slightly thickened above the middle, in contrast to H distans and H cogniauxiana that have a filiform spur that is not thickened at all. H herminoides generally has smaller flowers than H millei. The anterior petal lobe is longer than the posterior one whereas in H millei it is backward with the anterior lobe shorter than the posterior one." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 11 Kraenzl. 1911
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1:107 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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