Habenaria subauriculata B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 1896

Photo by © Roland Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid POhoto Website

Drawing NOT? by © Ames and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Cool LATER Summer

Common Name The Almost Eared Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Puebla and Oaxaca states of Mexico at elevations around 1850 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, flexuous, leafy stem carrying ovate, acute, 3 nerved, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, erect, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"Has the habit of H flexuosa And H clypeata but with the lateral petals not divided." B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 1896

The photo above has the lateral petals almost undivided fitting the description and the name better. Ames drawing shows the lateral petals well divided so I suppose he got it wrong. Any opinions?

Synonyms Habenaria entomantha var. subauriculata (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) Ames & L.O.Williams 1941

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 32: 34 B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 1896

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 drawing not?;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 60 Ames & L.O.Williams 1941 as Habenaria entomantha var. subauriculata

Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005

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