Habenaria umbraticola Barb.Rodr. 1877 SECTION Leptoceras
Photos by © J. A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
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Common Name The Shadow Loving Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerias, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana, and Santa Catarina states of Brazil in cloud forests as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, stout stem enveloped completely by imbricate sheaths grading above into elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on a terminal, erect, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, 6 to 7 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, erect-patent flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide; 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
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