Habenaria langenheimii Szlach. & Kolan. 2017 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl

Drawings © by A Krol

Common Name Lagenheim's Habenaria [American Plant Ecologist and Ethnobotanist 1925 to 2021]

Flower Size

Found in Venezuela, Santander department of Colombia and Ecuador in grasslands at elevations around 1675 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, basal, spread, subsessile, in a rosette, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-obovate, acute to subobtuse, the upper 4 to 6 considerably smaller leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, [6.5 to 9 cm] long, loosely 6 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate as long as to somewhat longer than the ovary floral bract.

"Differs from all other Habenaria with rosulate leaves in Colombia collectted so far by having entire, linear-falcate, acute petals amd reduced antherophores and rostellophores." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 113 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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