Habenaria pleiophylla Hoehne & Schltr. 1921 SECTION Leptoceras

Plant

Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence

Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter & Hoehne

Part shadeWarm TO Coolfall

Common Name The Full Leafed Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, glabrous stem carrying many, erect-patent to suberect, ligulate, subacute to acuminate, drying membraneous, grading to bracts above leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with erecet-patent, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers.

Similar to H leptoceras in the size and H odontopetala in the shape of the petals.

Synonyms Habenaria paranaguensis Hoehne 1950; Habenaria paranaguensis f. minor Hoehne 1950

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secç. Bot. 1(2): 23 Hoehne & Schlechter 1921

Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 105 Hoehne 1950 as H paranaguensis

Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 105 Hoehne 1950 as H paranaguensis fma minor

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 drawing fide

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