Habenaria petrogeiton Schltr. 1922 SECTION Seticauda

TYPE Drawing by Schlechter

Part shade Cool Summer

Common Name The ? Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Santa Cruz department of Bolivia at elevations around 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terresttrial with an erect, terete, leafy styem carrying erect-patent to subereect, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, subacute leaves grading into bracts above that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, cylindrical, 6" [15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with erect, lanceolate, acuminate as long as the flowers floral bracts.

Related to H obtusa

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band X: 33 Bolivia Schlechter 1922;