Habenaria pratensis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1850 SECTION Pratensis TYPE for this section Photo by © Luiz Aquino Silva Santos and El Genero Habenaria em Sergipe, Brazil Website

Flowers Photos and Collection sheet by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Prata Habenaria [A town in Goias Brazil]

Flower Size .88" [2.2 cm]

Found in French Guiana and northeastern Brazil in savannas at elevations of 2 to 10 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 7 or so, linear, conduplicate, acute to acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 7" [17.5 cm] long, 4 to 9 flowered inflorescence with erect, membraneous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter tha the ovary floral bracts and carrying somewhat showy, golden yellow to orange yellow, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms *Bonatea pratensis Lindl. 1835; Orchis pratensis Salzm. ex Lindl. 1835

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brazilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing ok; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Inventaire Taxonomique des Plantas de la Guyane Francaise II Les Orquidacees Cremers & Hoff 1992; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orquideas da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 drawing good; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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