Habenaria mesodactyla Griseb. 1864 SECTION Nudae

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Photos by © Julian Kenny and the NALIS Library

Drawing

Drawing by © Fritz Hamer

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Common Name The Medium Size Finger Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago in open pine forests at elevations around 80 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with thin, slender, sub-filiform stems enveloped mostly by sheath-like, closely adpressed, linear to linear-setaceous, acute leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on a terminal, erect, .8 to 2.4" [2 to 6 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with thinly membraneous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, longly subulate-acuminate floral bracts and carrying pale green flowers

Very close to H lepieurii but differs in the lateral lobes of the lip which are longer than the midlobe and the anterior lobe of the petals.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 211 Ames 1910

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 214 Ames 1910 drawing fide;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing good;

AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964 ;

Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = Habenaria secundiflora Barb.Rodr.1882;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 765 Hamer 1982 drawing ok;

Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean Kenny 1988 photo fide;

Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing ok;

Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama and Costa Rica Dressler 1993;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001;

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti 2008 as H secundiflora notes;

Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 drawing ok;

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

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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