Habenaria luzmariana R.González 1998 publ. 2000 SECTION Seticauda
photo by L. Hernández H./TYPE Drawing by J. R. González and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
EARLY 
Common Name The ?Habenaria
Flower Size .24 to .34" wide [6 to 8.5 mm]
Found in Jalisco and Nayarit states of Mexico in disturbed pine/oak forests on humid slopes at elevations around 500 to 1500 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing, herbaceous terrestrial with an ovoid to ellipsoid, velvety tuber giving rise to an erect, yellow, leafy stem carrying 19 to 22, cauline leaves, membraceous, wither in bloom, the upper ones when ascending resemble the floral bracts, with the veins in the stem like little elevated carinas, the last erect, the largest situated in the middle of the plant, down and up half decreasing, arching, the largest cuneate, ensiform or lanceolate-ensiform, acuminate, with three major nerves, the central nerve carinated leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an erect, terminal plump stem, thicker base, at the top somewhat angled in a cylindrical cluster, 4.2 to 9.2" [10.5 to 23 cm] long, 30 to 55 flowered inflorescence with thin, conduplicate below, narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Habenaria luzmariana is similar to H. greenwoodiana in trilobed labellum and sepal deep concave dorsal; it is distinguished by the habit and greenish-yellow flowers, lateral sepals in front view show the outer face; whole petals, oblong, oblique, the anterior margin provided in the the base of a small, subsquare or triangular, ovate, truncated, obtuse or rounded atrium; nectary longer than the ovary and arcuate cauticles, somewhat sigmoid. Habenaria luzmariana could be confused into a superficial observation with H. odontopetala , in the latter the dorsal sepal can be well extended and is suborbicular-ovate, the posterior side of the sepals lateral is sinuous; the petals are gradually rectangular, more or less cuneate, and the apex ends in two or three epicules; the labellum is sessile with the lobes opposite the laterals located at the base of the central lobe, spur is almost equidistant to the ovary, very little dilated in the distal part, the rounded, oblong-linguiforme stelidia are not descending." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández 2010
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bol. Inst. Bot. Univ. Guadalajara 6: 209 R.González 1998 publ. 2000
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