Habenaria polycarpa Hoehne 1915 SECTION Leptoceras

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website<

Drawing

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

Drawing of what was H miguelii

Drawing by © Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name The Many Fruited Habenaria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Bolivia and Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul states of Brazil at elevations around 200 to 500 meters as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, plump, leafy from the base to the middle stem carrying, membraneous, patent, ovate to elliptic, usually 6 to 9 flat, somewhat reticulate, gradually decreasding in size and grading into bracts above leaves taht blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, to 8" [20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with erect, loosely amplexicaul, long-acuminate, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying erect-patent, clear green flowers.

"Similar to H hassleriana but is well distinguished by the shapes of the individual flower parts and by the anther." Schlechter 1922

Synonyms Habenaria miguelii Schltr. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Relat. Commiss. Linhas Telegr. Estratég. Matto Grosso Amazonas 5(5): 34 Hoehne 1915

Repert. Speciorum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band X: 32 Bolivia Schlechter 1922 as H miguelii;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 95 Hoehne 1940;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: tab 40 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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