Habenaria strictissima Rchb.f. 1845 SECTION Seticauda
Photo by © Egrusonii and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawings by © Jorge Roberto González Tamayo and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Common Name The Extremely Rigid Habenaria
Flower Size .5" [1.2 cm]
Found in Chiapas, D.F., Estado de México, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sinaloa and Veracruz states of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in lower wet montane forests at elevations of 500 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped basally by slasping non-foliaceous sheaths and carrying well spaced, narrowly elliptic, acute smaller below, middlemost largest and grading smaller above into the bracts that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 7” [17.5 cm] long, racemose, densely to 25 flowered inflorescence with equal to to slightly larger than the ovary floral bracts.
"Habenaria strictissima is related to H. odontopetala , which to date has not been found in our area, but in this one the leaves are not intertwined, at least those below half spread; the lateral sepals are cuneate; the floral bracts are attenuated and acuminate; The petals have a small basal atrium on the anterior side and the apex ends in at least two apicules; the labellum is oblong, rounded, with two triangular basal atria; and the nectary is more or less cylindrical, a little dilated above half and then attenuated and the stelidia are very small.\" Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Synonyms Habenaria amblyantha Kraenzl. 1920; Habenaria amesiana Schltr. 1918; Habenaria latipetala Schltr. 1918; Habenaria pyramidalis Lindl. 1845; Habenella strictissima (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides strictissima (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910; Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correl 1952; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 Drawing fide/photo good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing good; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1021 Hamer 1984 drawing fide; Orchids of Guatemala and Beliz Ames & Correll 1985; Flora Novo Galaciana McVaugh 1985 as H pyramidialis; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 as H amesiana drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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