Habenaria zapopana R.González & Cuev.-Fig. 2010
Photo by L. Hernández H/TYPE Drawing by J. R. González and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
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Common Name The Zapopan Habenaria [A town In Jalisco Mexico]
Flower Size
Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in disturbed habitata along roadsides, in pebble fields at elevations around 1600 to 1650 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing, slender terrestrial with a vertical, with fine and uneven wrinkles, pubescent, ellipsoid tuber giving rise to an erect, thin, ribbed, leafy throughout stem carrying 6 to 10, rectilinear, regularly distributed, sheathing, the first reduced to one sheath, then almost all of them in the same way and size, the latter much narrower, similar to the floral bracts, almost all equilongate, the wider below, gradually narrower as they ascend, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, green, with three main nerves, the central one raised in a carina, hyaline edged leaves that blooms in the late summer on a terminal, erect, rachis, slender, 1.48" [3.7 cm] long, loose, cylindrical cluster, 5 to 16 flowered inflorescence with conduplicated, concave shallow, covers the ovary and the ovadolanceolate spur, acuminate, 12 to 16 mm long, 6.5 to 8 mm wide, with seven ribs, the central one carinate, the reticulum not very dense, the hyaline edges, in the first flowers it exceeds the ovary, in the latter a little shorter floral; bracts.
"Habenaria zapopana is similar to H filifera but it differs in the first leaf reduced to a scabbard, the latter much narrower, similar to the floral bracts, almost all equal in length, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, .32 to .4" [.8 to 1 cm] wide; dorsal sepal .2" [5 mm] long, .16" [4 mm] wide; ovate-lanceolate lateral sepals, subtreble, .24" [6 mm] long, .1" [2.5 mm] wide; petal posterior lobe .16" [4 mm] long, .048" [1.2 mm] wide; acute rounded anterior lobe, .24" [6mm] long, .028" [.7 mm] wide; side lobes of the labellum .32" [8 mm] long, .028" [.7 mm] wide; lobe mid-subtreble, 7.5 mm long, 1 mm wide and arching, acuminate, .56" [14 mm] long nectary Habenaria filifera displays the following contrasting attributes: a dense and narrow cluster of flowers; floral bracts shorter than the ovary; the posterior segment of the petals are oblong, sharp, rounded, .24" [6 mm] long, and the anterior segment as long; the labellum is subsessile; lateral lobes arched, distally incurved, .28" [7 mm] long, as long as the middle lobe of the labellum which is linear, rounded, a little wider at the base and a linear-cylindrical nectary, .44" [11 mm] long, barely dilated in the distal part." Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández 2010
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 69 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;
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