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Orchid Species: Habenaria parvidens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria parvidens is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1835.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 2600 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect leafy stem carrying distichous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, commonly canaliculate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 5.6 [14 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, the lower ones more or less foliaceous and progressively decreasing in size towards the apex bracts carrying rather fleshy, conspicuous flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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