Habenaria echeverryi (Szlach & Koanowska) in ed

Drawing by © A Krol 2017

Common Name Echeverry's Habenaria [Colombian Co-Collector of the type current]

Flower Size

Found in Vaupes department of Colombia at elevations around 200 to 250 meters as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, leaf stem carrying to 15, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, erect, adnate to the stem leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, sublaxly to subdensely 12 to 15 flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acuminate , shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Habenaria echeverryi is similar to Habenaria fassetii but it has the anterior lobe much shorter than the posterior one, the lip is set on a prominent, wide claw, the middle lobe is narrowly ligulate and both lateral lobes are prominently longer than the middle one. The spur is filiform and as long as the pedicellate ovary. Overall the most similar species in its floral parts is H longipedicellatabut the rostellum middle lob of E echeverryi is acute , whereas in H longipedicellata it is subtruncate and unequally 4 lobed." Szlachetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms *Rhinorchis echeverryi Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 221 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Rhinorchis echeverryi drawing fide

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------