Habenaria purdiei Fawc. & Rendle 1909 SECTION Seticauda

Type Collection sheet by © Purdie and Kew Monocot list

LATER

Common Name Purdie's Habenaria [English Original Collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Jamaica in moist open savannah at elevations of 600 to 700 metrs as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with thin, conspiculously reticulate, 11 to 15 nerved, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, acute, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the later fall on a 4.8" [12 cm] long, somewhat laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and flowers that have the spur much longer than the ovary.

Although very close to H floribunda [which would take precedence if synomonous] I have left these 2 species separate pending further research.

"Differs from H obtusa in the smaller lanceolate bracts." Fawcett & Rendle 1909

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* J. Bot. 47: 263 Fawcett & Rendle 1909

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910;

Flora of Jamaica Vol 1 Fawcett & Rendle 1910

Flora of Jamaica Vol 1 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing fide; Flowering Plants of Jamaica: 92 Charles Dennis Adams 1972;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

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