Habenaria gollmeri Schltr. 1919 SECTION Subnuda

Another Angle Photos By © Alexander Hirtz

Drawing Drawing By © Foldats

Drawing Drawing by © Culbertson and Dodson Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 388 1980

Part Sun CoolCold Winter Spring Summer Fall

Common Name Gollmer's Habenaria [German Botanist 1800's Original Collector of species]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy in the apical half stem carrying lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, basally clasping, decreasing in size upwards, acute to sub-acuminate leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, terminal, cylindric, to 9.6" [24 cm] long, often much shorter, sub-densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size upwards, as long as the ovary to rarely longer floral bracts.

CAUTION There are 2 distinct species here in the 2 drawings offered above, I do not know which one really is correct, so please use with caution!

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 38 Colombia Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 57 Figuren Atlas Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 1976 as H parviflora not = H gollemri drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 388 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988; Orchids Zenghong, Qital, Zhizhou, Kalyong and Heng 1993 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 2001 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok?; Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo ok; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo ok; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing/photo fide

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