Habenaria ocadiziana J.M.Peinado-A. 2018 SECTION Seticauda
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Jesus Manuel Peinado-Arellanes and Phytotaxa 334: 241 2018
EARLY
Common Name Ocadiz's Habenaria [Mexican Orchid Enthusiast and Collector of the type current]
Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]
Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in open pine-oak forest, rocky terrain, elevated and dense grassland, with considerably steep hills inclinations of 35° at elevations of 2000 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with spherical to subglobous tubers giving rise to a slender, erect, inconspicuous stem carrying 8, 4 spiraled and held in a basal rosette, eliptical-cordiform, 5-veined leaves and 4 , ovate-lanceolate to elipticallanceolate, 3-veined, cauline leaves above that blooms in the early fall on an erct, terminal, raceme laxly 3.8 to 4.2" [9.5 to 10.5 cm] long, 8 to 9 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, carinate in the central vein, leaving the spur free, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers bright green, point in same direction, ca 2 cm long × 1–1.5 cm wide; ovary g
"This species is similar in overall the morphology to other species such as H. ofeliae and Habenaria rosulifolia by the leaves in a basal rosette, slender plant, bilobed petals, trilobed lip, long and parallel anther channels. It is distinct in the external lobe of the petal 1.5 to 2 times the length of the internal lobe, thin and filiform, also the lateral lobes of the lip are longer and filiform in comparison to the middle lobe, sharing this character with H. protusorostrata and H. rzedowskii. However, it is different from the the latter two because the external lobes of the petals are erect above the dorsal sepal, the lip middle lobe linear-oblong, acute, sigmoid, incurved in natural position with margins reduplicate almost to the middle, and the spur, inflated and sigmoid in the apical portion, 16–17 mm long × 2 mm wide at apical portion." J.M.Peinado-A. 2018
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytotaxa 334: 241 J.M.Peinado-A. 2018 Drawing/photo fide
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