Habenaria sylvicultrix Lindl. ex Kraenzl 1892 SECTION NudaePhoto courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz and their Website

Common Name The Forest Dwelling Habenaria

Flower Size .8" [2cm]

Found in Amazonas Brazil under trees with deep shade as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths mcarrying linear, acuminate basally clasping sheaths that blooms on an erect, to 10" [25 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975

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