Habenaria brittonae Ames 1912TYPE Drawing by © Ames
EARLIER
Common Name Britton's Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in Pinar del Rio Cuba on grassy hillsides in clay soils at elevations of 200 to 900 meters as a just large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, slener, leafy stem carrying linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute, basally largerst decreasing in size above leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal, erect, slender, to 1 to 6.5" [2.5 to 15.5 cm] long, densely 6 to 20 flowered inflorescence.
Similar to H amalfiana but can be distinguished quickly by the lateral lobes apices of the lip which are pubescent in H amalfiana and glabrous in H brittonae.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Catalogo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna Gale 1987; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide;
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