Habenaria pumila Poepp. 1833
Photo by © Anibal Prina - Argentina/Diego Alarcón - Chile and the The Naturista Website
TYPE Drawing by © Poeppig and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Beautiful Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Argentina and Chile as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial withan oblong tuber giving rise to an erect, short stem completely enveloped by 2 to 8, ovate-ensiform leaves that blooms on an erect, densely 10 to 12 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate half as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria brachyceras Phil. 1861; Habenaria germainii Phil. 1858; Habenaria paucifolia Lindl. 1835; Habenaria uliginosa Phil. 1859
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Fragm. Syn. Pl.: 21 Poepp 1833
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 310 Lindley 1835 as H paucifolia
Linnaea 29: 46 Phil 1858 as H germainii
Linnaea 30: 201 Phil 1859 as H uliginosa nom. illeg.
Anales Univ. Chile 1861(1): 59 Phil. 1861 as H brachyceras nom. illeg.
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