Habenaria trifida Kunth 1816 SECTION Pentadactylae Urban
Plant and Flowers in situ Bahia Brazil
Photos by © A. V. Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil. and His 'Orchids of the Restinga area of Bahia, Brazil', Website
What was H flexa and H kuhlmannii
What was H biflora and H allemanii
What was H setifera and H pickellii
Drawings by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Three Pointed Habenaria
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina in mangrove swamps, grassy areas and in lowland savannas at elevations of 800 to 1625 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem completely enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths carrying 4 to 8, narrow, acuminate, erect to patent, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, few [1 to 3] flowered inflorescence.
A variable species in both plant and flower structure so I have put forward some drawings of some of the species that are considered to be synonyms of this species.
Synonyms Bonatea pauciflora Lindl. 1835; Habenaria allemanii Barb.Rodr. 1881; Habenaria angustifolia Kunth 1816; Habenaria caracasana Schltr 1919; Habenaria curti-bradei Hoehne 1937; Habenaria dentirostris Pabst 1955; Habenaria duckeana Schltr. 1925; Habenaria endresiana Schltr. 1923; Habenaria flexa Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria flexa var. rodriguesii Cogn. 1893; Habenaria flexuosa Rchb.f. 1965; Habenaria gehrtii Hoehne & Schltr. 1921; Habenaria hoehnei Schltr. 1921; Habenaria kuhlmannii Schltr. 1925; Habenaria pauciflora (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1854; Habenaria pickelii Hoehne 1937; Habenaria setifera Lindl. 1839; Habenaria spathacea A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Orchis longicornu Salzm. ex Lindl 1835; Rhinorchis kuhlmannii (Schltr.) Szlach. 2012; Rhinorchis pauciflora (Lindl.) Szlach 2012; Rhinorchis pickelii (Hoehne) Szlach. 2012; Rhinorchis trifida (Kunth) Szlach. 2012;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853/4 as H spathacea; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as H setifera; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 as H setifera drawing good; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten I Venezuela Schlechter 1919 as H caracasana; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 38 Colombia Schlechter 1920 as H setifera; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 38 Colombia Schlechter 1920; Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII Peru Schlechter 1921 as H setifera; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 272. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as H endresiana; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H curti-bradei drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H flexa drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H kuhlmannii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H pauciflora drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H allemanii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H duckeana drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H setifera drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H pickelii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H gehrtii drawing ok; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as H pauciflora; Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correl 1952 as H pauciflora; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as H pauciflora; Drawings of Florida Orchids Blanche Ames 1959 as H setitifera dawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as H pauciflora; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as H angustifolia; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as H pauciflora Rchb.f drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 1 Lasser/Foldats 1969; Fieldiana, Orchids of Peru 1st Supplement to Schweinfurth 1970; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H allemanii drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H biflora; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H curtiibradei drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H kuhlmannii drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H pickelii drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as H biflora drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 771 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; Orchids of Guatemala and Beliz Ames & Correll 1985; Flora Novo Galaciana McVaugh 1985; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean Kenny 1988 as H pauciflora photo fide; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Inventaire Taxonomique des Plantas de la Guyane Francaise II Les Orquidacees Cremers & Hoff 1992; Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama and Costa Rica Dressler 1993; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Ecuadorian Native Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez & Dressler 2005; The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing hmm/photo good; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 as Rhinorchis pauciflora; Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mytnik-ejsmont, Sawicka, Rutkowski and Baranov 2012 as Rhinorchis trifida drawing fide; Orquidees du Bresil As Orquideas sa Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2015 photo/drawing fide; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 Drawing/photo fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Rhinorchis trifida drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Rhinorchis trifida; Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 as Habenaria kuhlmannii drawing fide
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