Habenaria integripetala Cogn. 1907 SECTION Nudae 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 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.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

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