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Habenaria monorrhiza (Sw.) Rchb. f.

orquidea, fringed orchid, tropical bog orchid

Terrestrial, to 12 dm tall, with fibrous roots and leafy stem. Inflorescence racemose, the flowers are delicate and white, lip distinctly 3-lobed (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)

Order
Asparagales

Family
Orchidaceae

Genus
Habenaria

Species
monorrhiza

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Orchis monorrhiza Sw. Order changed from Orchidales to Asparagales (updated by: J.Villalba 2022).

Taxon origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: The native range of this species is S. Mexico to Tropical America (POWO, 2023).

References

  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
  • Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
  • Schweinfurth, C. (1960) Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru. Fieldiana, Bot. 30(3): 533–786.
  • Schweinfurth, C. (1958) Orchidaceae. Orchids of Peru. Fieldiana, Bot. 30(1): 1–260.
  • Ames, O. Correll, D.S. (1952) Orchids of Guatemala. Fieldiana, Bot. 26(1): i–xiii, 1–395.
  • Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
  • Jäger, H. Tye, A., Kowarik, I. (2007) Tree invasion in naturally treeless environments: Impacts of quinine (Cinchona pubescens) trees on native vegetation in Galápagos Institute of Ecology, Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Plant Ecology, Technical University Berlin, Rothenburgstr. 12, 12165 Berlin, Germany.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
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"Galapagos Species Database, Habenaria monorrhiza", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1023. Accessed 16 April 2024.