Habenaria ochroleuca R.Br. 1810 SECTION Acuiferae
Photo by © Tropic Breeze [Zig] and © All Things Plants Website
Drawing by © Kolanowska and © PeerJ, DOI 10.7717/peerj.1 Synopsis of Habenaria s.l. (Orchidaceae) in New Guinea and adjacent islands Kolanowska etal 2021
Common Name The Ochre-White Habenaria
Flower Size .4 to .55" [1 to 1.3 cm]
Found in Papua New Guinea and the Northern Territory and Western Australia states of Australia at elevations of 20 to 1000 meters in occasionally wet areas and depressions in sparse woodlands as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 2 to 4, narrowly oblong, acute to acuminate leaves and many overlapping bracts that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 8 to 18" [20 to 45 cm] long, wiry, 10 to 25 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.
Similar to H triplonema and H elongata but differs in the spur being a little shorter than the ovary and the processes of the stigma are shorter than others in the section Acuiferae
CAUTION Kew has H triplonema as a synonym of this species, I have left it and its synonyms separate at this time.
Synonyms Habenaria eurystoma Schltr. 1911; Pecteilis eurystoma (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Pecteilis ochroleuca (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
2018
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 313 R Br. 1810 Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 248 Schlechter 1911 as Habenaria eurystoma
Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide; Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017; Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
2018 as Pecteilis eurystoma Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
2018 as Pecteilis ochroleuca --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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