Habenaria pabstii J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch. 2003 SECTION Macroceratitae Kraenzl.
Photo by © Batista, Bianchetti and Goncalves ©
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Batista, Bianchetti and Goncalves and ©
Common Name Pabst's Habenaria [Brazilian Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Goias, Minas Gerais and Tocantins states of Brazil at elevations around 100 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an oblong, to subspherical tuber giving rise to an erect, leafy stem carrying 7 to 11, lowermost 3 to 4, sheath-like, the middle ones, patenmt, linear-lanceolate, acute, uppermost few grading smaller leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, 1 to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate floral bracts that are as long as the ovary and pedicel.
"Similar to H bractescens, H fastor, H gourlieana, H johanennsis, H longicaudata, and H macronectar however it is distinct from all these species. H pabstii has a shorter, forward arched, free spur, and shorter noninvolute stigma which are closely parellel forming a single, receptive surface turned uo and frontward. All the others have pendent spurs which are completely or partially enclosed by the bracts which are longer than the ovary and pedicel, ranging from nearly 1.6 to 6" [4 to 15 cm] long and to 10" [25 cm] long in H longicaudata. Also thir stigmas are always longer, separated and only in contact at the apex, the margins are involute and rolled in spirally on each side and the receptive surface at the apex is mostly turned to the sides." J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch. 2003
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Novon 13: 397 J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch 2003
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