Habenaria fastor Lindl. ex Warm.1884 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium

EARLY

Common Name The ? Habenaria

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in WC & SE Brazil on roadsides and in swamps always with a wet base at elevations of 1000 to 1200 meters as a large to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with a white tuber giving rise to an erect, stout stem with 4 to 7, light green, deeply keeled, lanceolate leaves enveloping the stem that blooms in the early summer on a 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorecence

This is the largest plant and flower of the Habenaria in the Rio de Janiero region.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;