Habenaria quinquecarinata R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2010SECTION Clypeatae

TYPE Drawing by © X. M. Cuevas F. and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 184 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Common Name The Five Carina Habenaria [refers to the carinas of the leaf]

Flower Size

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in pine/oak forests at elevations around 1970 to 1980 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an vertical, ellipsoid tuber giving rise to an erect, angled, the majority of the stem is uncovered by leaves, leafy throughout stem carrying 7, subcoriaceous, extended, arched, the first two reduced to cuculated sheaths, the following develop lamina, and the last resembles floral bracts, flat, the largest located just above the middle of the plant, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the sheaths short, 1.8 to 2" [4.5 to 5 cm] long, .68 to .8" [1.7 to 2 cm] wide, green in the bundle, with five raised ribs in conspicuous carinas, the three main ones are most prominent, the glandular borders, hyaline leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, semi-cylindrical, lax, 3.2 to 3.8" [8.5 to 9.5 cm] long, 7 to 9 flowered inflorescence with leathery, ascending, conduplicate, lanceolate, acuminate, with three ribs, the reticulum lax, exceeds the flowers below, above just equals the ovary floral bracts.

"Habenaria quinquecarinata resembles H. castroi , but H. quinquecarinata has the leaves extended, arched, with five nerves raised in conspicuous carinas, the three main ones more prominent, the edges glandular; a rhombic dorsal sepal,.2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] wide; the anterior lobe of the petals .32" [8 mm] long, .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] wide and a rhombic oblong central lobe. H. castroi has imbricate, erect or adpressed leaves, the three main nerves raised in carina, hylaine edges; the dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic, .16 to .168" [4 to 4.2 mm] wide; the lateral sepals well varicated, lanceolate, treble, .36 to .4" [9 to 10 mm] long, .14 to .16" [3.5 to 4 mm] wide; the anterior lobe of the petals .18 to .24" [4.5 to 6 mm] long, .02" [0.5 mm] wide and the central lobe is linear-oblong." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ibugana 12(2): 32-35. González & Cuevas-Figueroa 2004 drawing fide

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 184 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

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