Habenaria leptophylla (Renz) D.L.Jones 2002 SECTION Acuiferae

Drawing by © Kolanowska etal 2021

Common Name The Delicate, Fine Leaved Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in open savanna-forest and damp places in open savanna-land at elevations of 20 to 60 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy at the base stem carrying 3 to 4, linear, grass-like, acute leaves with several bract-like leaves up the stem that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 3.2" [8 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute. half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, sepals pale yellow with white base, petals white, tipped pale yellow, lip base white, lobes bright citron, spur yellow-green with white base flowers

" This species is very similar to Habenaria elongata , from which it can be distinguished by the prominent fusion between the basal part of the spur and the apical part of the ovary, characters not found in any other Habenaria species reported from New Guinea. Otherwise, both taxa are alike." Kolanowska et al. 2021

Synonyms Habenaria elongata var. leptophylla Renz 1987; Pecteilis leptophylla (Renz) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Pl. Syst. Evol. 155: 330 Renz 1987 as Habenaria elongata var. leptophylla

* Orchadian 13: 520 D L Jones 2002

Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017 as H leptophylla;

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis leptophylla;

Peer J DOI 10.7717/peerj.12011 Kolanowska etal 2021 Drawing fide

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