Habenaria sprucei Cogn. 1893 SECTION Subnudas
Photo by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon
Common Name Spruce's Habenaria [English Botanist and Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam and northern and eastern Brazil in riparian forests or humid grassy areas at elevations around 1300 to 1800 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, slender stem carrying 3 to 5, distichous, linear, adpressed to the stem, acute leaves gradually decreasing in size upwards that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, laxly 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence with erect, lanceolate, acute, mostly longer than the flowers floral bracts.
+"This species is similar to H. aff. nuda. The flowers are completely green and the species is typical of seasonally humid grassy fields. Also similar to H roraimensis but H sprucei differs in the larger flowers with anrrower leaves. Furthermore the lip is 3 lobed above the basal undivided part by.08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm]. versus the lip divided just above the base, and the petal lobes are diverging versus petals lobes parellel." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017
Synonyms Habenaria leaoana Schltr.1925; Habenaria nuda Kraenzl.1892; Rhinorchis leaoana (Schltr.) Szlach. 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 96 Kraenzlin 1892 as H nuda nom. illeg.
* Fl. Bras. 3(4): 40 Cogniaux 1893;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 42(2): 72 Schlechter 1925 as H leaoana
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H leaoana drawing ok;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as H leaoana drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H leaoana drawing good;
Inventaire Taxonomique des Plantas de la Guyane Francaise II Les Orquidacees Cremers & Hoff 1992 as H leaoana;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
The genus Habenaria (Orchidaceae) in the Brazilian Amazon drawing fide;
Richardiana 13: 76 Szlach 2012 as Rhinorchis leaoana
Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 drawing fide;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 as Rhinorchis leaona drawing hmm;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 172 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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