Habenaria platanthera Rchb.f. 1876 SECTION Leptoceras

Drawing by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Broad Anther Habenaria

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in Uruguay as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, robust, leafy stem carrying many, long-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal to 6" [15 cm] long, cylindrical, many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, three nerved, concave, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the flowers floral bracts and carrying emerald green flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Linnaea 41: 55 Rchb.f 1876 as H plantantherae;

Flora Brasilica Vol 3 part 4 Cogniaux 1893 as H plantantherae

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 93 Hoehne 1940

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: tab 36 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

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