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]
This is a medium to giant sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial orchid found in Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains on dryer forests floor at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters 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.
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 ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I 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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