Habenaria mesodactyla Griseb. 1864

photo by © Julian Kenny and the NALIS Library

LATER

Common Name The Medium Size Finger Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Treinidad & Tobago in open pine forests at elevations around 80 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with thin, slender, subfiliform stems enveloped mostly by sheath-like, closely adpressed leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on a terminal, erect, few flowered inflorescence

Very close to H lepieurii but differs in the lateral lobes of the lip which are longer than the midlobe and the anterior lobe of the petals.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 765 Hamer 1982 drawing hmm spur too long; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

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