Habenaria pseudoglaucophylla J.A.N.Bat., R.C.Mota & N.Abreu 2008 SECTION Humilis
Photo/drawing by © Luiz Menini Neto and The Field Museum Website
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Common Name The False Glaucophylla Habenaria [refers to its similarity to H glaucophylla]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil near small shrubs on quartzite outcrops at elevations around 1200 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an inconspicuous stem carrying 5 to 6, basal, rosulate, sessile, membraneous, narrowly elliptic, acuminate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 8" [20 cm] long, to 82.4 to 83.5" [26 to 28.5 cm] long overall, provided with 2 to 5, spiral, appressed, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate sheath-like bracts, laxly 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, shorter to equalling the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate, glabrous, green t ogreenish yellow flowers
"Distinctive features of the new species are the rosulate leaves, the deeply tripartite lip, the oblong posterior petal lobe with a truncate apex, and the short, tooth-like anterior petal lobe. The new species occurs in campo rupestre vegetation, usually associated with quartzite outcrops." Novon 18: 409 J.A.N.Bat., R.C.Mota & N.Abreu 2008
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Novon 18: 409 Habenaria Pseudoglaucophylla (Orchidaceae), A New Species from Minas Gerais, Brazil J.A.N.Bat., R.C.Mota & N.Abreu 2008, drawing/photo fide
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