Habenaria leon-ibarrae R.Jiménez & Carnevali 2001 SECTION Guilleminii

TYPE Drawing by © Rolando Jimenez Machorro

Common Name Leon Ibarra's Habenaria [Mexican orchid collector of the type current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Quintana Roo state of Mexico and Guatemala in low inundated jungle near sea level as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a subglobose, wrinkled tuber giving rise to an erect, stem carrying 6 to 7, oblong-lanceolate, acute, three nerved, progressively smaller above grading to floral bracts, basally clsping leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, racemose, laxly, simultaneously 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence carrying pale green flowers.

Similar to H novemfida and H brownelliana but H leon-ibarrae differs in the smaller flowers with a shorter dorsal sepal, and in the shorter and laxer inflorescence. The posterior lobes of the petals about 1.5 times longer than the anterior, [vs much shorter in H novemfida and much longer in H brownelliana], and the lobes of the lip more or less the same length [vs the laterl lobes much longer in H novemfida and H brownelliana]. The leaves are much broader. H novemfida is found at elevations around 2000 meters, the new specis occurs close to sea level.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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