Habenaria recta Schltr. 1920 SECTION Leptoceras TYPE Drawing by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Collection sheet Drawing by © Leita and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Full Shade Cool Summer

Common Name The Upright Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]

Found in Sao Paulo and Rio do Sul states of Brazil as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a oblong tuber giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying 5 to 6, erect-patent, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, to 4.6" [to 9 cm] long, to 9 or more flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate-elliptic, acumiante, shorter to just as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, erect-patent,

Kew puts this one as a synonym of H ekmanniana but I have left them separate pending further research.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975;

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