Habenaria wercklei Schltr. 1923

Drawing by © Fritz Hamer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Werckle's Habenaria [German Orchid Collector in Central America later 1800's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in open pastures and in lowland forests at elevations around 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by foliaceous sheaths grading to basal, green, largest below, acuminate, disitchous, conduplicate, conspicuously carinate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, few to 15 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Habenaria gymnadenioides Schltr. 1923; Habenaria hondurensis Ames 1934; Habenaria verecunda Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19 Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as H verecunda; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19 Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19 Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as H gymnadenioides; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 764 Hamer 1982 as Habenaria hondurensis drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Habenaria hondurensis drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama and Costa Rica Dressler 1993 as H verecunda; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol III Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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