Habenaria trifida Kunth 1816 SECTION Pentadactylae Urban
Plant and Flowers in situ Bahia Brazil Photos by © A. V. Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil. and His 'Orchids of the Restinga area of Bahia, Brazil', Website
Common Name The Three Pointed Habenaria
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina in mangrove swamps, grassy areas and in lowland savannas at elevations of 800 to 1625 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem completely enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths carrying 4 to 8, narrow, acuminate, erect to patent, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, few [1 to 3] flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Bonatea pauciflora Lindl. 1835; Habenaria allemanii Barb.Rodr. 1881; Habenaria caracasana Schltr 1919; Habenaria caucana Schltr. 1920; Habenaria curti-bradei Hoehne 1937; Habenaria dentirostris Pabst 1955; Habenaria duckeana Schltr. 1925; Habenaria endresiana Schltr. 1923; Habenaria flexa Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria flexuosa Rchb.f. 1965; Habenaria gehrtii Hoehne & Schltr. 1921; Habenaria kuhlmannii Schltr. 1925; Habenaria pauciflora (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1854; Habenaria pickelii Hoehne 1937; Habenaria setifera Lindl. 1839; Habenaria smithii Schltr. 1920; Habenaria spathacea A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Orchis longicornu Salzm. ex Lindl 1835
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853/4 as H spathacea; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as H setifera; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten I Venezuela Schlechter 1919 as H caracasana; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as H caucana; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 272. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as H endresiana; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H curti-bradei drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H flexa drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H kuhlmannii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H pauciflora drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H allemanii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H duckeana drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H setifera drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H pickelii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 as H gehrtii drawing ok; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as H pauciflora; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969; Fieldiana, Orchids of Peru 1st Supplement to Schweinfurth 1970; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 771 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Ecuadorian Native Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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