Habenaria rodriguesii Cogn. 1893 SECTION Nudae TYPE Drawing by © Cogniaux

Part shade Warm Cool LATERSummer

Common Name Rodrigues' Habenaria [Brazilian Orchid Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm]

Found in Fr Guiana and Minas Gerais Brazil as a warm to cool growing terrestrial with a robust stem enveloped by linear, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer on an an erect, terminal, 4" [10 cm] long, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence with erect, leaf-like, pale green, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Habenaria muricata Barb.Rodr. 1882

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 drawing fide;

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