Habenaria monorrhiza (Sampled Red List Index Flora of Peru)

Habenaria monorrhiza

Common Name ²

The Single-Rhizome Habenaria

Location ²

Belize; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador (Ecuador (mainland), Galápagos); El Salvador; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mexico; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Puerto Rico; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Virgin Islands, U.S.

Description ²

A small to large sized, warm to cool growing, erect terrestrial. suterranean hairy tuber, an erect stem enveloped completely by purple-spotted grey green sheaths giving rise to ovate-lanceolate, thin, basally clasping leaves that are grayish underneath that blooms on a terminal, 8" (20 cm) long, laxly to densly many flowered, racemose inflorescence that has lanceolate, keeled floral bracts occuring in the fall and winter with nocturnally fragrant flowers.

Habitat Type ²

Found at altitudes of 5 to 2800 meters as a small to large sized common terrestrial in low weedy ground, wet areas along roadside ditches, wet meadows, road cuts, and thickets on wooded hillsides as well as damp, exposed steep slopes.
Also found in clearings and disturbed vegetation in moist broad-leaved forest.