Habenaria pinzonii R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004 publ. 2006 SECTION Clypeatae

TYPE Drawing by © R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa and The Epidendra Website

LATER

Common Name Pinzon's Habenaria [Mexican Original Collector of Species current]

Flower Size

Found in Guerrero, Nayarit, Jalisco, Oajaca and Sinaloa? states of Mexico in pine/oak forests at elevations around 1200 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with hanging, ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem enveloped by leaf sheath bases and carrying cauline, adpressed to the stem, conduplicate to flat, grading larger to the middle, oblanceolate, to lanceolate, acuminate, grading to bracts above, denticulate margined leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, lax, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with adpressed, conduplicate, ovate-lanceolate, acute, as long as to just longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white, simultaneously opening flowers

"Habenaria pinzonii is related to H. clypeata but it is distinguished from it by the following characteristics: very slender plant, leaves in general reduced to attached sheaths, with few flowers, dorsal sepal rhombic spatulate, obtuse; does not form a galea on the spine, glandular stigmatic processes in the side edges of the base. Habenaria pinzonii can be confused with H schaffnerii , but it is distinguished by the more robust plant; the sheaths develop a short, wide blade; the dorsal sepal is erect and elliptical; the labellum is 5 nerved; The nectary is well arched, free of the floral bracts, claviform; Other more differential subtle details are found in the column and in the pollina. Habenaria lizbethae is very close, in which the sheaths infundibuliforms always develop lamina and are further away from each other; the erect dorsal sepal Gallic form on the column, although it is worth mentioning that it is visible for the most part; Lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute; the spur longer than the ovary; the acute rostellus and stigmatic processes are without glands on the lateral edge of the base." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 12(2): 8-11. R.González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004 drawing fide;

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 163 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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