Habenaria luerorum (Szlach. & Kolan.) in ed

Drawing by © A Krol 2017

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Common Name The Luer's Habenaria [American Botanist Couple Carl & Jane Luer Co-collectors of the TYPE]

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia and Cauca departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 to 2650 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying 5 to 8, narrowly lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the winter and later spring on an erect, terminal, 3.2 to 8.8" [8 to 22 cm] long, laxly few to many flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolateacuminate shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Differs from all others in Szlachetko & Kolanowska's Genus Rhinorchis from Colombia in the entire, unlobed petals, with just a few small auricles above the base on the outer margin, otherwise the plant is is similar to H lehmanniana but differs in the acute apex of the rostellum middle lobe versus the middle lobe truncate at the apex and unequally 3 lobulate with the margins somewhat irregularily denticulate." Szlachetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms *Rhinorchis luerorum Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 222 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Rhinorchis luerorum drawing fide

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