Habenaria maculosa Lindley 1835 SECTION Subnuda

Drawings by © A Krol

Common Name The Spotted Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Cuba, Jamaica, St Vincent, Antioquia and Cauca departments of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia as a medium sized terrestrial with a stout erect stem carrying sessile, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, decreasing in size upwards leaves that blooms on an erect, apical, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence with leafy, acute, glabrous, as long as the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

"Easily separable from all other Habenaria by the petals being widest above the middle, oblong-oblanceolate to olong ligulate in outline with obscure anterior petal lobes. The lip lateral lobes are widely divergent and the spur is wrapped around the ovary." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 309 Lindley 1835;

Bonplandia j2:10 Rchb.f 1853/4;

Bonplandia j4:210 Rchb.f 1856;

Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 47 Colombia Schlechter 1920;

Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII: 56 Peru Schlechter 1921;

Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII: 120 Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as H maculosa;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 158 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide;

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