Habenaria matudae Salazar 1999

Drawing by © Hagsater, Soto and Salazar

Common Name Matuda's Habenaria [Mexican Orchid Enthusiast and original collector of species current]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico in pine oak forests at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, delicate stem carrying all along the stem, 5 to 6, small, ascending, elliptic to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, papilose, becoming bract-like above leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, unilateral, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, laxly and simultaneously opening, 5 to 9 flowered inflorescence with ovate to lanceolate, attenuate to acute, shorter below to just longer above than the ovary floral bracts.

"This species is distinguished from its relatives by the slender plants, the one-sided inflorescence, the small flowers with papillose ovary and sepals, and the retrorsely ascending, clavate spur. Habenaria crassicornis and H. adenantha are similar in the peculiar position of the spur and in the presence of the conspicuous papillae. However, it has larger and stouter plants, larger flowers, noticeably broader spur, and much larger papillae which often are cylindrical or clavate and are especially abundant on petals and lip. Moreover, H. crassicornis seems to flower at a different time, late August to early November." Hagsater, Soto & Salazar 2002

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Autón. México, Bot. 70: 6 Salazar 1999

Icones Orchidaceaerum 5-6 Plate 591 Hagsater, Soto & Salazar 2002 drawing fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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