Habenaria parvidens Lindl. 1835 SECTION Leptoceras Drawing by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Cold Fall

Common Name The Small Toothed Habenaria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru at eleavtions around 2600 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying distichous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, commonly canaliculate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 5.6" [14 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, the lower ones more or less foliaceous and progressively decreasing in size towards the apex bracts carrying rather fleshy, conspicuous flowers.

Synonyms Habenella parvidens (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platantheroides parvidens (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band VIII Peru Schlechter 1921; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide

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