Habenaria sastrei Szlach. & Kolan. 2017 SECTION Nudae

Drawing by © A Krol

Part shade Hot EARLIER Summer

Common Name Sastre's Habenaria [Colombian Collector of the type species current]

Flower Size

Found in Amazonas department of Colombia in savannahs at low elevations as a medium sized, hot growing terrestial with an erect, tall, slender, very ddelicate stem carrying 4 to 7, linear, acute, adpressed to the stem, decreasing in size upwards leeaves that blooms in the earlier summer on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, very lax, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute as long as the pedicellate ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers.

" Somewhat similar to H secundiflora but has smaller flowers with the dorsal sepal .16 x .12" [4 x 3 mm] versus .3 x .22" [7.5 x 5.5 mm] a shorter spur .4 versus .68" [1 versus 1.7 cm] that is filiform versus narrowly cylindrical ad swollen in the apical third and ciliate margins of the sepals versus glabrous. Moreover the lip of H secundiflora is trilobed about [.08 to .1" [2 to 2.5 mm] above the base versus just above the base in H sastrei. The ciliate sepals are also observed in H ludibundiciliata however in that species the lip is lobed .02 to .04" [.5 to 1 mm] above the base, its lobes are subequal in length [the midlobe is .1 to .24" [2.5 to 6 mm], the lateral lobes are .12 to .28" [3 to 7 mm] and the spur is clavate." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms Kusibabella sartor (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* London J. Bot. 2: 662 Lindley 1843

Repert Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band 35 Rio Grande Do Sul Schlechter 1925;

Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;

Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Vol 1 Lasser/Foldats 1969 drawing fide;

Richardiana 4: 61 Szlach 2004 as Kusibabella sartor

Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 226 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Kusibabella sartor drawing fide

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