Habenaria setacea Lindl. 1835 SECTION Nudae
Photos by © J. A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
EARLY
Common Name The Bristly Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerias state of Brazil, French Guiana, Surinam and Venezuela in grasslands, open scrub , low woodlands and marshy areas at elevations around 600 to 1675 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a slender, delicate, flexuous stem carrying short, grass-like, straight, narrow, acute, strongly amplexicaul, basally clasping leaves decreasing in size above that blooms in the fall on a narrow, 1.6 to 3.6" [4 to 9 cm] long, laxly 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter to a bit longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria setacea var. depauperata Cogn. 1893;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 38 Colombia Schlechter 1920; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; Native Orchids of Trinidad & Tobago Schultzes 1960; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing good; Inventaire Taxonomique des Plantas de la Guyane Francaise II Les Orquidacees Cremers & Hoff 1992; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as H setacea var ecalcarata; 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; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 drawing good; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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