Habenaria rupicola Barb.Rodr. 1881 SECTION Leptoceras

Photo by © Mario Peixoto

H cf rupicola

Plant specimen

Perianth

Pedicel and Spur

Photos by © J. A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti and the Orquideas de Minas Gerais; El Genero Habenaria

Drawing of H minarum

Drawing Drawings © by Hoehne

Part sun Cool LATE Spring EARLYSummer

Common Name The Rock Loving Habenaria

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Minas Gerias state of Brazil on embankments and in rocky grasslands as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a thin, erect stem enveloped by imbricating, leafbearing sheaths grading larger above, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, amplexicaul and basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, slightly sinuous, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm]long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, lower ones longer than the ovary and upper ones shorter than the ovary floral bracts .

Synonyms Habenaria minarum Hoehne & Schltr. 1921; Habenaria montana Barb.Rodr.1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 154 Barb Rodr. 1877 as H montana nom. illeg

*Rev. Engenh. 3: 144 Barb Rodr. 1881

Flora Brasilense Vol 3 Part 4: 63 Cogniaux 1893

Orchidacearum Genera et Species vol 1: 287 Kraenzlin 1897;

Flora Brasilense Vol 3 Part 4: Tab 13 fig 1 Cogniaux 1893 drwing fide

Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secē. Bot. 1(2): 23 Hoehne & Schlechter 1921 as H minarum

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I:116 Hoehne 1940

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: tab 65 Fig 1 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 116 Hoehne 1940 as H minarum

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: Tab 64 fig 2 Hoehne 1940 as H minarum drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 as H minarum drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst and Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing/photo fide;

Orquideas de Minas Gerais, El Genero Habenaria Joćo A. N. Batista; Joćo Batista F. da Silva; Luciano de Bem Bianchetti; Rev. bras. Bot. vol.31 no.1 Sćo Paulo Jan./Mar. 2008 photo fide to H. cf rupicola;

The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 as H minarum drawing no;

The Organ Mountain Range, its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller & Seehawer 2008 drawing/photo fide to H cf rupicola no

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