Habenaria parvidens Lindl. 1835 SECTION Leptoceras

Drawing by © Hoehne

Common Name The Small Toothed Habenaria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1150 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying distichous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, commonly canaliculate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 5.6" [14 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, the lower ones more or less foliaceous and progressively decreasing in size towards the apex bracts carrying rather fleshy, conspicuous flowers.

Similar to H alata but can be distinguished by the size of the plant, to 40" in H alata and 12" in H parvidens, the length of the leaves in H alata 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long, and 3.2" [8 cm] long in H parvidens length of inflorescnec in H alata 12" [30 cm] long, 4" [10 cm] long, in H parvidens, the length of the foral bracts .72 to .96" [18 to 24 mm] long, versus to .64" [17 mm] long in H parvidens.

Synonyms Habenella parvidens (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides parvidens (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 317 Lindley 1835

Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII Peru Schlechter 1921;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1:31 Schweinfurth 1958 ;

Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;

Richardiana 4: 107 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides parvidens;

Richardiana 6: 38 Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006 as Habenella parvidens

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 124 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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