Hapalorchis lindleyana Garay 1978

TYPE drawing by © Garay and Ann. Bot. Fenn. 53: 110 E.Parra, Szlach. & S.Nowak2016

Full shade Cool

Common Name Lindley's Hapalorchis [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in Brazil as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with thickened, villous roots giving rise to numerous, ovate, acute, rounded below into the canaliculate, slender, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, peduncle erect, 4.4 to 5.4" [to 10" [25 cm] long, cm] long, provided with several sheathing bracts, rachis short, laxly few flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, long-acuminate, to .6" [1.5 cm] long floral bracts and carrying quite thin flowers.

Often confused with Hapalorchis lineatus but separable by H lindleyana's larger floral segments and a different lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 26: 21 Garay 1978

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 26: 35 pl 4 Garay 1978 drawing fide

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