Habenaria integripetala Cogn. 1907 SECTION Seticauda

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

Common Name The Smooth Rimmed Petal Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Paraguay at elvations of 200 to 400 meters as a large sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by a few, spaced out, strongly amplexicaul, long-adpressed to the stem except the apical 1" free, fountain pen-shaped, acute sheaths that blooms in the early summer on a terminal, erect, 5.6" to 6" [14 to 15 cm] long, laxly 14 or so flowered inflroescence with ovate-lanceolate, longly-acute to longly acuminate, membraneous, strongly amplexicaul, a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

The complete abscence of leaves or their reduction to sheaths not detached from the stem separates this species from all others in the SECTION Seticauda

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 43: 281 Cogniaux 1907

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 147 Hoehne 1940

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: tab 97 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; ;

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