Habenaria mariae R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004 publ. 2006 SECTION Clypeatae

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Part Suncool LATE Summer

Common Name Maria's Habenaria Mexican Orchid Enthusiast Sra Arreguin current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in oak/pine forests at elevations of 1650 to 1950 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid, smooth to wrinkled tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 9 to 12 cauline, imbricate to slightly separate, erect to adpressed, rigid, more or less arcuate, narrowly elliptic, bract-like leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, terminal, cylindric to semi-cylindrical, angled, thin, 2.6" [6.5 cm] long, 7 to 9 flowered inflorescence with a bit longer to just as long as the ovary, rigid, conduplicate, deltoid to lanceolate, acuminate; somewhat longer to a bit shorter than the ovary floral bracts

"Habenaria mariae is related to H. clypeata but differs in the slender plants; cluster wider than the distance between the ends of the leaves; slender nectary that slightly exceeds the ovary, an obtuse column. The species seems to be related to Habenaria pinzonii , both of which are slender plants; reduced, ascending or adpressed leaf blades; wider cluster than the distance between the ends of the leaves; white flowers; the anterior petal segment shorter than the posterior segment; the lateral lobes of labellum shorter than the central segment; a not emarginated column, with a blunt apex, and the anther channels and the rostellar arms incurved. Habenaria pinzonii , however, has the dorsal sepal and the posterior lobes of the petals leave the stem exposed; the anterior segment of the petals is retroflex, the posterior segment is subacute, the sepals are less acute, the lateral lobes of the labellum are crisscross; the nectary as long as the barely arcuate ovary, and the stigmatic processes have glands in the basal part of the outer side.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 12(2): 11-14. R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004 drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 165 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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