Habenaria tuerckheimii Schltr. 1906 SECTION Guilleminii

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photo/ Drawing by © J R Gonzalez and Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 56 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010

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Common Name Tuerckheim's Habenaria [German Orchid Collector in Mexico late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sinaloa y Veracruz. states of Mexico and Guatemala at elevations around 350 to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, glabrous, substrict, short stem carrying 5 to 6 basal, rosulate, elliptic, acuminate, glabrous, thin textured leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on a terminal, erect, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, to about 20 flowered inflorescence with ascending, concave, lanceolate, acuminate, green, trinerved, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"The approximate, six or more in number, chartaceous and basal leaves are somewhat similar to H distan in their arrangment." Ames 1910

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 2: 129 Schlechter 1906

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: 206 Ames 1910

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 4: PLATE 68 Ames 1910drawing fide;

Las Orquideas del Occidente de Mexico Vol 1: 56 Jorge Roberto González Tamayo y Lizbeth Hernández Hernández 2010 drawing fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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