Habenaria idroboi Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

TYPE Drawing by © A Krol

Common Name Idrobo's Habenaria [Colombia Collector of the type species 1917-2010]

Flower Size

Found in Amazonas department of Colombia at lower elevations as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with erect, leafy stems carrying 17, shortly petiolate, oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, acute, decreasing in size upwards leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, elongate, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate longer than the ovary floral bracts.

" The lip with very long lateral lobes is shared with 2 species H macroceratitis and H quinqueseta both having more of less oblong-lanceoalte to oblong-obovate leaves. IN both these species the petals are bipartite, with prominent anterior lobes and the spur length varies from 1.6 to 7.2" [4 to 18 cm] long, In petal form H idorboi somewhat resembles H sceptrophora but differs in larger flowers with long .76 [1.9 cm] and quite massive spur with an acute apex versus .52" [1.3 cm] long, cylindrical spur with an obtuse apex. and H odroboi has a very long .72 [1.8 cm] filiform lateral lobes to the lip versus .18" [4.5 mm] in H sceptrophora." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Flora of Ecuador 9(225: 1): 38 Garay 1978 drawing fide;

Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 503 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 160 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;

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