Habenaria millei Schltr. 1915 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl

Drawing © by Hoehne

Drawing Drawing by © Jaimeson

Common Name Mille's Habenaria [French Botanist 1900's Original Collector of species]

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in Loja province of Ecuador at elevations around 2600 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect leafy above the base stem enveloped loosely by foliaceous sheaths and carrying rosulate, to 5, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute, rather thin, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a cylindrical, to 5.6" [14 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, the lower longer than the ovaries and progressively decreasing in size towards the apex bracts carrying rather fleshy flowers.

"The spur of Habenaria herminioides Kraenzl. 1911 and H millei are more or less narrowly subclavate, slightly thickened above the middle, in contrast to H distans and H cogniauxiana that have afiliform spur that is not thickened at all. H herminoides generally has smaller flowers than H millei. The anterior petal lobe is longer than the posterior one whereas in H millei it is backward with the anterior lobe shorter than the posterior one." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 114 Schlechter 1915

Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII Ecuador Schlechter 1921; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 112 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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