Habenaria proiteana J.A.N.Bat., A.A.Vale & Bianch. 2023 SECTION Nudae
Photos by © J.A.N. Batista and Eur. J. Taxon. 891: 65 J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch .2023
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Common Name Proite's Habenaria [Brazilian Karina Proite - for her support, companionship, help in the field and contribution to numerous collections, and for finding the population used to characterise, describe, and typify the newly proposed species current]
Flower Size
Found in Goias state of Brazil amid rocky outcrops in sandy, dry soil or seasonally humid campo limpo, in dark, sandy-clay soils at elevations of 1100 to 1600 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem carrying 4 to 7, narrow, linear, on the middle of the stem, decreasing in size towards the apex, for the most part adpressed to the stem leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an eret, terminal, 3.6 to 9.2" [9 to 23 cm] long, spirally arranged, laxly 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, broadly ellip[ti to orbicular, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate, green, glabrous flowers.
" Similar to H. rodriguesii in general morphology, but distinguished by the dorsal sepal .24 to .36 [6 to 9 mm] long vs .4 to .56" [10 to 14 mm] long, petal anterior segment.44 to .64" [11 to 16 mm] long vs .8 to 1.3" [20 to 33 mm] long, spur .52 to .68" [13 to 17 mm] long, vs .64 to .84" [16 to 21 mm] long, straight or only slightly curved, and anther canals curved upwards vs straight, perpendicular to the anther loculi. Also similar to H. sobraliana in general morphology, but distinct by the petal anterior segment .44 to .64" [11 to 16 mm] long, inserted a few millimeters above the posterior segment’s base vs .2 to .32" [5 to 8 mm] long, inserted at the base of the posterior segment." J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch .2023
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Eur. J. Taxon. 891: 65 J.A.N.Bat. & Bianch .2023 photo fide
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