Habenaria pseudohamata Toscano 1992 ensitu Minas Gerais Brazil

Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The False Hamata Habenaria

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found as a medium to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid in Minas Gerais Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters with a cylindric, occasionally branching stem envelopd by many oblong-lanceolate, green, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, many [40] flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005