Habenaria petalodes Lindl. 1835 SECTION Seticauda
Plant in situ Bahia Brazil Photos by © A. V. Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil. and His 'Orchids of the Restinga area of Bahia, Brazil', Website
Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
LATER
THROUGH EARLIER
Common Name The Petal-Like Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal erect, many flowered inflroescence
Synonyms Habenaria petalodes var. micrantha Rchb.f. 1866; Habenaria warszewiczii Schltr. 1921; Habenella petalodes (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides petalodes (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 9. Panama Schlechter 1922 as H warszewiczii; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = H floribunda;
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