Habenaria brevilabiata A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845 SECTION Seticauda

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

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Common Name The Short Lipped Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in southwestern Mexico in humid oak forests at elevations around 1600 to 1950 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a glabrous, leafy stem carrying lanceolate, to oblong-lanceolate, acute, grading smaller above, arising from loose sheaths below leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, cylindrical, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute bracts.

Synonyms Habenella brevilabiata (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides brevilabiata (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910 drawing fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae McVaugh 1985

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