Habenaria schultzei Schltr. 1924 SECTION Seticauda

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Common Name Schultze's Habenaria [German Collector earlier 1900's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia in gallery forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with numerous, spread to suberect, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms on an erect, to 28" [45 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying small, greenish flowers.

" Poorly known but said by Schlechter to be similar to H floribunda [H odontopetala] but differs in the smaller diameter flowers [about .4" [1 cm] versus .4 to .96" [1 to 2.4 cm] and the petal form, obliquely oblong, truncate at the apex with 4 teeth, anterior margin with a small basal tooth versus oblong-quadrate to linear-oblong, truncate, obscurely 3 lobed apically, the middle lobule retuse with the basal auricle obscure and the lip linear-ligulate, obtuse, with small, basal, triangular teeth versus linear, obtuse to rounded, rather thick and usually with a pair of minute basal auricles, otherwise simple lip. The spur of H schultzei is much shorter .048 versus .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 27: 126 Schlechter 1924;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1:90 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Habenella schultzei

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