Habenaria pentadactyla Lindl. 1835 SECTION Guilleminii
Photos by © Jacques Klein and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Five Fingered Habenaria
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Rio Grande do Sul state of Brazil and Uruguay as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a short, thin, obscurely angled, leafy stem carrying linear-lanceolate, acuminate, basally clasping, erect-patent, 3 nerved leaves that blooms in the summer terminal, erect, 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, erect-patent, more or less greenish flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 307 Lindley 1835 P>Botanische Jahrb Fur Syst Vol 9: 315 Kraenzlin 1888
Botanische Jahrb Fur Syst Vol 15: 124 Kraenzlin 1892
Flora Brasilica Vol 3 part 4: 76 Cogniaux 1893;
Repert Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band 35: 22 Rio Grande Do Sul Schlechter 1925;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 178 Hoehne 1940
Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: tab 121 fig 2 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brazilensis Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
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