Habenaria heteroplectron (Rchb.f ex Szlach & Kolan) in ed SECTION Pentadactylae Urban

Drawing by © Michal Lamczyk 2017

Common Name The Different Spurred Habenaria [refers to the spur which is narrowly cylindrical, clavate at the bifid apex and reaching 1.2 to 4.8" [3 to 12 cm]

Flower Size

Found in French Guiana as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, leafy stem carrying 5 to 6, cauline, linear-lanceolate, acute ,erect, adpressed to the stem leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 2 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, resupinate flowers.

"Similar to H macilenta but it differs in having anterior petal lobes shorter than the posterior lobes and strongly falcate and filiform versus lobes subequal in length. An acute spur versus a cylindrical blunt spur. Also similar to H sprucei but it has filiform lateral lobes of the lip, longer than the middle one and the spur is bifid at the apex. I h heteroplectron the lip lateral lobes are linear-oblanceolate, shorter than the middle one and the spur is acute. It differs from H trifida in the spur which in H hewteroplectron is narrowly cylindrical, clavate at the bifid apex and reaching 1.2 to 4.8" [3 to 12 cm]. " Szlachetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms *Rhinorchis heteroplectron Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Polish Botanical Journal 59 (2) Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2014 as Rhinorchis heteroplectron drawing fide

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