Habenaria josephensis Barb. Rodr. 1882 SECTION Leptoceras
Plant Photos by Americo Docha Neto
Drawing Drawing by Hoehne
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Common Name Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's Habenaria [English Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]
Found in Bahia, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janiero Staes of Braszil, Paraguay and Missiones Argentina on dryer forests floor at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a medium to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with a succulent, erect, leafy stem carrying alternate, deep green, suffused with silver, lanceolate, keeled, gradually decreasing in size towards the apex leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, cone-like, erect, to 20 flowered inflorescence with single nerved, lanceoalteacute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to H leptoceras but distinguished by the hairs on the petals the posterior segment is more acute and ont obtuse and truncate.
Synonyms Habenaria bradeana Kraenzl. 1915; Habenaria foliosissima Kraenzl. 1921; Habenaria heterophylla Schltr. 1919; Habenaria josephensis var. integrilabia Hoehne 1940; Habenaria wacketii Porsch 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 257 Barb Rodr. 1882
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 150 Porsch 1905 as H wacketii
Ark. Bot. 14(10): 3 Kraenzlin 1915 as H bradeana Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 253 Schlechter 1919 as H heterophylla
Ark. Bot. 16(8): 4 Kraenzlin 1921 as H foliosissima
Fl. Brasílica 12(1): 95 Hoehne 1940 drawing ok;
Fl. Brasílica 12(1): tab 41 Hoehne 1940 drawing ok;
Fl. Brasílica 12(1): 96 Hoehne 1940 as H josephensis var integrilabris;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing good;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing ok/photo good;
The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide;
Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas sa Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 drawing good/photo fide;
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