Habenaria uruguayensis Garay 1976

Collection sheet by © Fruchard and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Cool

Common Name The Uruguay Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Uruguay and Argentina as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short stem enveloped completely by leaf bases and carrying 4 to 6, conduplicate linear, acuminate leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, densely many flowered inflorescence with longer than the flowers floral bracts

Kew puts this one as a synonym of H parviflora

Synonyms Habenaria montevidensis Lindl. 1835; Habenaria montevidensis f. parviflora (Lindl.) Pabst 1957; Habenaria montevidensis f. reichenbachiana (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst 1957; Habenaria montevidensis var. tucumanensis Griseb. 1879

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 314 Lindley 1835 as H montevidensis nom. illeg.

Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 340 Griseb 1879 as H montevidensis var. tucumanensis

Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 19: 84 Pabst 1957 as H montevidensis f. parviflora

Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 19: 84 Pabst 1957 as H montevidensis f. reichenbachiana

*Bradea 2: 118 Garay 1976

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