Habenaria rupicola Barb.Rodr. 1881 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © Mario Peixoto
Photos by © J. A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
Drawing Drawings © by Hoehne
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Common Name The Rock Loving Habenaria
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerias state of Brazil on embankments and in rocky grasslands as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a thin, erect stem enveloped by imbricating, leafbearing sheaths grading larger above, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, amplexicaul and basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, slightly sinuous, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm]long, many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Habenaria minarum Hoehne & Schltr. 1921; Habenaria montana Barb.Rodr.1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H minarum drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H minarum drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Minas Gerais, El Genero Habenaria Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 Sćo Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 photo fide to H. cf rupicola; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 as H minarum drawing no; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide to H cf rupicola no
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