Habenaria rzedowskiana R. González 1978
Photos by © Edouard Faria
TYPE Drawing by © Jorge Roberto González Tamayo and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 160 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
and EARLY 
Common Name Rzedowski's Habenaria [Polish-Mexican Botanist and Original Collector of the type 1926 - 2023]
Flower Size
Found in Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos and Mexico states of Mexico in sandy or clay soils with grasses in oak or pine forests at elevations of 1500 to 2800 meteres as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem turning black with age, carrying several, short, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, recurved leaves articulated to the sheaths and blooming in the summer and early fall on an erect, 2” [5 cm] long, 1 to 5 flowered, racemose inflorescence with equal in length to the ovary floral bracts.
Habenaria rzedowskiana is similar to H jaliscana but H rzedowskiana differs in having an ovary without wings versus winged, the petals slightly divergent versus clearly divergent, the sepals single nerved versus trinerved, the stigmatic processes obliquely ovate versus obliquly obovate, the anther canals erect and divergent from the column versus upwardly curved and almost parellel to the column and the plants dry black as specimens versus brown. R. González 1978
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7: 132 Gonzales 1978 drawing/photo fide;
Flora Novo Galaciana McVaugh 1985;
Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 160 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;
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