Habenaria polyrhiza Schltr. 1922 SECTION Leptoceras

TYPE Drawing © by Schlechter

Part shade Hot Spring

Common Name The Many Rooted Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil at elevations around 20 meters as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with filiform flexuous, pilose roots giving rise to an erect, strict to substrict, terete, glabrous stem carrying 7 to 8, erect-patent, lanceolate to ligulate-lanceoalte, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on an ereect, terminal, to 20" [50 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers.

"Similar to H polygonoides but more robust and much larger leaves, the posterior part of the petals are narrower and falciform and the anterior part of the laterals of the lip are longer, the spur is shorter and the stigmatic proceses are longer." Schlechter 1922

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): 14 Schlechter 1922

Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(4): Plate 1 fig 3 Schlechter 1922 drawing fide ;

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