Habenaria jamaicensis Fawc. & Rendle 1909
Photo by © Ken Morgan
Drawing by © R J Gonzalez and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 56 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010
Comparison drawing with H distans
TYPE Drawing by © Fawc. & Rendle 1909
Common Name The Jamaican Habenaria
Flower Size .44" [1.1 cm]
Found in Jamacia and Jalisco state of Mexico at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, basally leafy, very short stem carrying shiny pale green, elliptic-lanceolate, soft, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a termnal, erect, 6" [15 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with membraneous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often longer than the flowers floral bracts.
CAUTION Kew puts this species as a synonym of H distans but as can be seen in the comparison drawing thay are very different in the petals and lip. Also there are more flowers with a thicker spur and the floral bracts are much longer and often exceed the flowers in length. So I have left them separate pending further investigation.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
I.Urban, Symb. Antill. 6: 300 Cogniaux 1909
J. Bot. 47: 126 Fawcett & Rendle 1909
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as H distans var jamaicensis
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as H distans var jamaicensis drawing fide;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910drawing fide;
Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correl 1952 as H distans var jamaicensis;
Orchids of Jamaica Glouden & Tobisch 1995 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide
Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 59 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;
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