Habenaria repens Nutt. 1818 Photo courtesy of John Mason
Plant ensitu in Louisiana Photos courtesy of Val Keller
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Common Name The Crawling Habenaria - Water-Spider False Reinorchid
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found from North Carolina to Florida and west to Arkansas and Texas and then south through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina as well as Cuba, Dominican Republic, Hait, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago at elevations of 25 to 3000 meters as a small to large sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial in standing water as an aquatic orchid in bogs, roadside ditches and canals or as a terrestrial in marshy areas and is the most wideranging Habenaria in the US. It has fig shaped tubers and hairy roots with an erect stem carrying several, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, basally clasping leaves that are reduced to bracts towards the apex of the stem. This orchid can flower at any time of the year and occurs on a erect, densely flowered, terminal raceme with several to many [10 to 50] flowers
Synonyms Habenaria aranifera Lindl. 1835; Habenaria maxillaris Lindl. 1834; Habenaria nuttallii Small 1903; Habenaria palustris Acuña 1939; Habenaria polygonoides Schltr. 1919; Habenaria polyrhiza Schltr. 1922; Habenaria pseudorepens Schltr. 1913; Habenaria radicans Griseb. 1866; Habenaria repens var. gracilis Lüderw. & Hoehne 1940; Habenaria repens var. maxillaris (Lindl.) Garay 1978; Habenaria sampaioana Schltr. 1930; Habenaria taubertiana Cogn. 1893; Habenaria tricuspis A. Rich. 1850; Mesicera repens (Nutt.) Raf. 1836; Orchis repens (Nutt.) Raf. 1818; Platanthera foliosa Brongn. 1829; Platanthera repens (Nutt.) A.W. Wood 1861
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 770 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 113 Dodson 1980; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002;
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