Habenaria paivaeana Rchb.f. 1878 SECTION Leptoceras Drawing by © Cogniaux

FragrancePart sunCool toCold LATERSummer

Common Name The Paiva Habenaria [A town in Minas Gerais]

Flower Size 3/8" [1.2 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil and Argentina as a medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial with small, ovoid to oblong tuber giving rise to n erect, rounded to angualr, leafy below stem carrying basally clasping, lanceoalte, acute, erect, rather thin leaves that decrease in size towards the apex and blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 3 to 6" [7.5 to 15 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence and carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Habenaria achalensis Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria achalensis var. angustifolia Kraenzl. 1911; Habenaria angustiloba Lillo & Hauman 1917; Habenaria chloroceras Kraenzl. 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H achalensis drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H angustiloba drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as H achalensis;

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