Habenaria sylvicultrix Lindl. ex Kraenzl 1892 SECTION Nudae

Photo courtesy of © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

Full shadeWarmCool

Common Name The Forest Dwelling Habenaria

Flower Size .8" [2cm]

Found in Amazonas state of Brazil under trees with deep shade as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths carrying linear, acuminate basally clasping sheaths that blooms on an erect, to 10" [25 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 101 Lindl. ex Kraenzl. 1892;

Flora Brasilica Vol 3 Part 4: 46 Cogniaux 1893;

Orchid Genera et Species Vol 1: 255 Kraenzlin 1901;

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: 161 Hoehne 1940

Flora Brasilica Vol XII I: Tab 108 Fig 2 Hoehne 1940 drawing good;

Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing good;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

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