Habenaria lisenarum G.A.Romero & J.A.N.Bat. 2009 SECTION Leptoceras
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Common Name The Lisen's Habenaria
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Venezuela in deciduous forsts in sandy soils as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy throughout stem carrying about 10, lanceolate, acute, spreading leaves that gradually decrease in size upwards that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long,densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying white to greenish white flowers.
Similar to H abortiens but H lisenarum is a smaller plant with smaller leaves and shorter inflorescence and has a longer spur 1.52" [35 mm] long, versus 1 to 1.08" [2 to 2.5 cm] long in H abortiens. The spur shape is different as well with H lisenarum being longer and filiform, apically much swollen and subacute while H abortiens is shorter, narrowly cylindrical and apically somewhat swollen and subacute.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 207 G.A.Romero & J.A.N.Bat. 2009
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 117 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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