Habenaria socialis Fawc. & Rendle 1909

TYPE Drawing by © Fawcett & Rendle

Common Name The In Company Habenaria [Because it is similar to and found with H alata]

Flower Size .4" ,1 cm]

Found in the Mandeville area of Jamaica on marshy soils at elevations around 600 to 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy stem enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying thin, lanceolate, grading into the bracts above, 9 nerved, acute, leaves that blooms on a 1.6"[ 4 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence.

Differs from H alata in the texture and venation of the leaves, in flowers that are 1/2 the size, in the shape of the tepals and the relatively longer lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* J. Bot. 47: 263 Fawcett & Rendle 1909

Flora of Jamaica: 13 Fawcett & Rendle 1910

Flora of Jamaica: Plate 2 #4-7 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing fide;

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4 Ames 1910;

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