Habenaria parviflora Lindl. 1835 SECTION Leptoceras Photo by © José A. Radins Argentina
Drawings © by Hoehne
Common Name The Small Flowered Habenaria
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Guinea?, Guyana, Surinam?, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina in dry or humid savannahs at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an underground tuber giving rise to an erect, slender stem enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths carrying narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, dorsally carinate, plicate, 3 to 5 nerved leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, racemose, many flowered, 4" [10 cm] long, inflorescence carrying very small flowers for the genus.
Synonyms Habenaria angulosa Barb.Rodr. 1881; Habenaria caaguazuensis Cogn. 1906 publ. 1907; Habenaria demerarensis Rchb.f. ex M.R.Schomb. 1841; Habenaria inconspicua Cogn. 1907; Habenaria mello-leitonii Ruschi 1946; Habenaria montevidensis f. parviflora (Lindl.) Pabst 1957; Habenaria montevidensis f. reichenbachiana (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst 1957; Habenaria montevidensis var. tucumanensis Griseb. 1879; Habenaria pariquerensis Hoehne 1937; Habenaria parviflora f. robusta Hoehne 1936; Habenaria reichenbachiana Barb.Rodr. 1877;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 38 Colombia Schlechter 1920; Repert Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band 35 Rio Grande Do Sul Schlechter 1925; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H angulosa drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H pariquerensis drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H inconspicua drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H angulosa drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H mello-leitonii; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H inconspicua cogn. drawing good; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Venezuelan Orc hids Illustrated Vol 6 1976 as H parviflora not = H gollemri; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 as H angulosa drawing/photo fide; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide; Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas sa Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 photo/drawing fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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