Habenaria secunda Lindl. 1835 SECTION Leptoceras Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and The Orchidstudium Website
Drawing Drawing © by Hoehne
Common Name The Secund Habenaria
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying towards the base sheaths becoming oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 5 nerved, obtuse to acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, 1.2 to 6" [3 to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with long-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the flowers floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria estrellensis Rchb.f. 1850; Habenaria secunda var. estrellensis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing hmm to photo; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H secunda var estrellensis drawing hmm to photo; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas sa Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 photo/drawing fide;
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