OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Habenaria quinqueseta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Habenaria quinqueseta

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-005:

Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Habenaria quinqueseta

 

COMMON NAME:
 Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria

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image of Habenaria quinqueseta, Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria

Jim Fowler    jafhabquinqu_close030913

September    Levy County    FL

Goethe State Forest

"Quinqueseta" refers to conspicuous hornlike lobes of lip & lateral petals, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Habenaria quinqueseta, Michaux's Orchid, Long-horned Habenaria

Jim Fowler    jafhabquinqu_group030913

September    Levy County    FL

Goethe State Forest

Leaves 6-25cm x 2.5-6cm, reduced above to clasping, ovate, acuminate bracts, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Habenaria quinqueseta

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Habenaria quinqueseta

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 049-03-005:
 Habenaria quinqueseta   FAMILY Orchidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Habenaria quinqueseta

 

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2137

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Wet to mesic pine flatwoods, moist hardwood hammocks, Altamaha Grit outcrops, pine rocklands, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, with floral bracts upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Greenish-white
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
3 sepals, two lateral and one dorsal
3 petals, the two lateral similar and a third (the lip) enlarged
stamens and pistil fused together into a column
Inferior ovary

Raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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