Habenaria leprieurii Rchb.f.1846 SECTION Nudae
Photo by © Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon
Plant and flowers in situ Surinam
Photo by © Werkhoven
Drawing by © Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon
Drawing © by Hoehne
EARLY
Common Name Leprieur's Habenaria French Botanist and Collector in Fr Guiana and Brazil 1800's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago and Brazil in shrublands and savannahs at elevations of 50 to 1100 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with 1 to 7, distichous, smaller leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a terminal, racemose, .8 to 3.2" [2 to 8 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence with erect, three nerved, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
The drawing and specimen are correct, the photo however is questionable.
Very similar to H mesodactyla but this one has shorter lateral lobes than the midlobe and anterior lobe of the petals.
+"Renz (1992) considered H. culmiformis a synonym of H. leprieuri and we follow this position here. Distinctive features from other closely related species such as H. alpestris and H. heptadactyla are the completely green flowers and the width of the lateral sepals (1 mm in H. leprieuri and 1.5-2 mm in H. alpestris and H. heptadactyla). Also, the flowers are spaced in the inflorescence and the ovary is mostly parallel to the inflorescence axis and at least half covered by the bracts. The species is typical of humid places, usually growing in areas with water over the soil."
Synonyms Habenaria cruegeri Cogn. 1909;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 drawing good; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 as H cruegeri; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing hmm; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 H culmiformis drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing FIDE; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 not = H hepdactyla; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = H hapdactyla; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo drawing ok/photo no poossily H macilenta; Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean Kenny 1988 photo fide; Inventaire Taxonomique des Plantas de la Guyane Francaise II Les Orquidacees Cremers & Hoff 1992; Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama and Costa Rica Dressler 1993; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as H mesodactyla; +The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 Sćo Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 drawing; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 drawing ok;
O gźnero Habenaria (Orchidaceae) na Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais, Brasil Rodriguésia 64 (2) Jun 2013 Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 darawing fide;
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