Habenaria pringlei B.L.Rob. 1893 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl. 1909
Photos by © The Orquideas Mexicanas Website
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Common Name Pringle's Habenaria [American Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Mexico, Guatenala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations around 1150 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, stout, leafy throughout stem carrying basally clasping, ensiform, carinate, gradually tapering to a long point leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, to 6" [15 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence. with lanceolate, sharply acuminate floral bracts and carrying cream to whitish greeen flowers.
Similar to H macroceratitis but H pringlei differs in the longer, narrower leaves, larger flowers and conspicuous fleshy appendages. Also similar to H trifida but differs in the larger more numerous flowers and the shape of the petals.
CAUTION Even though Kew states that this species is separate from H bractescens, it seems extremely similar, barring differences in the plants [which I have not seen for this species] I believe that they are conspecific and if so then H bractescens takes precedence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 27: 184 B L Rob. 1893
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #3 2011 photo fide;
Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 Drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1:126 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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