Habenaria bractescens Lindl. 1835 Photos by © Roger Van Vugt and his Habenaria Photo Website
Plant Photos by © Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria
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Common Name The Bracted Habenaria
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]
Found from Venezuela?, Brazil, Ecuador?, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina near or in water and marshes as a large sized, hot to warm growing, terrestrial orchid at elevations of 550 to 850 meters with a leafy stem carrying linear to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, conduplicate below, carinate leaves that blooms with a terminal, laxly few to several flowered, to 20" [50 cm] long, racemose inflorescence occuring from the spring through fall.
Synonyms Habenaria hauman-merckii Hicken 1908; Habenaria kleyi Schltr. 1925; Habenaria pontagrossensis Kraenzl. 1911; Habenaria sartor f. minor Cogn. 1903; Kusibabella bractescens (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004; Macrocentrum mendozinum Phil. 1871
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985?; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1224 Dodson 1985 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo ok;
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