Habenaria bicornis Lindl. 1835 SECTION Macroceratitae Kraenzl.
Photo by © Joao Batista and The Research Gate Website
Drawing by © The Kew Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Two Horned Habenaria [Refers to the 2 processes at the base of the lip]
Flower Size
Found in Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil in freshwater swamps and savannahs, sandy pinelands and grassy hillsides at elevastions of 5 to 350 meters as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrrying lanceolate, plicate, 3 nerved leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal erect, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, floral bracts
Synonyms Habenaria bidentata Poepp. ex Steud. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 4 Ames 1910; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 7 Ames 1922; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Catalogo Descriptiva de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987; Field Guide to the Orchids of Panama and Costa Rica Dressler 1993; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Cuba Larramendi & Llamacho 2005; LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 165—184. Batista, Proite1, Carvalho1, Vale & Felix 2014 From Cuba to most of the Neotropic:... (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262674386_From_Cuba_to_most_of_the_Neotropic_Habenaria_bicornis_Orchidaceae_is_widespread_from_Mexico_to_southeastern_Brazil [accessed Apr 22 2018].; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide
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