Species Information - Habenaria baeuerlenii

Habenaria baeuerlenii F.Muell. & Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17 (1893) 488 ('bauerleni')

Type: Baeuerlen s.n. (N. Guinea, Strickland R.) (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

• Habenaria chloroleuca Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 77 (non
  - Type: Schlechter 14704 (holo B, lost)
• Plantaginorchis chloroleuca (Schltr.) Szlach., Richardiana 4, 2 (2004) 64 (based on later homonym)
• Habenaria viridialba P.F.Hunt, Kew Bull. 24 (1970) 75 (nom. nov.)
• Habenaria turneri R.S.Rogers, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 49 (1925) 254
  - Type: Turner s.n. (Rigo Distr., Papua) (holo BRI)
• Peristylus turneri (R.S.Rogers) W.Kittr., Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30 (1984, publ. 1985) 95

Roots fleshy, fusiform. Stem erect, terete, 40-60 cm by 4-5 mm, at the base several-leaved. Leaves lanceolate, erect-patent, 17-22 by 2.2-3 cm, apex acute. Inflorescence racemose, 10-15 cm long, rather laxely many-flowered. Floral bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, erect-patent, as long as or shorter than the ovary, apex acuminate. Pedicel with ovary subcylindric, 1.5-1.8 cm long. Flowers resupinated, c. 1 cm wide. Dorsal sepal ovate, 0.5 cm by 3 mm, concave, apex narrowly obtuse. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, about as long as the median sepal but a little wider, apex narrowly obtuse. Petals linear-subfalcate, forming a hood together with the median sepal, 0.5 cm long, apex obtuse. Lip 3-lobed, spurred; lateral lobes cuneate-rhomboid, 0.5 cm long, at apex 3 mm wide; mid-lobe linear, obtuse, 0.3 cm long; spur cylindric, slightly thickened towards the apex, 1.2 cm long. Column with subtriangular, obtuse rostellum, stigmatophores short, oblong, obtuse, hardly longer than the anther channels. Anther channels short. (After Schlechter, 1905; as Habenaria chloroleuca Schltr.)

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