Habenaria mesodactyla Griseb. 1864 SECTION Nudae
Photos by © Julian Kenny and the NALIS Library
Drawing by © Hamer and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
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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 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 good; 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; 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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