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Orchid Species: Habenaria selerorum

Kew currently accepted name is Habenaria floribunda

Habenaria selerorum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1899. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Habenaria floribunda.
Genus
Habenaria (Hab.)
Grex
selerorum
Parents
Species
Author
Schltr.
Year
1899
ORIGIN: Found in Florida, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil and Paraguay at elevations of 900 to 1850 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial in damp hardwood hammocks with a stem enveloped completely by 5 to 12, glossy green, elliptic, acute, basally clasping leaves from which a terminal, 2' [60 cm] long, several to many flowered [10 to 60], racemose inflorescence with basal leaf sheaths and linear-elliptic floral bracts and flowers that have an unpleasant odor which blooms in the fall through late winter.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Habenaria Hab floribunda 1835 Lindl.
Add+ Habenaria Hab purdiei 1909 Fawc. & Rendle
Add+ Habenaria Hab garberi 1880 Porter
Add+ Habenaria Hab herzogii 1913 Schltr.
Add+ Habenaria Hab odontopetala 1845 Rchb.f.
Add+ Habenaria Hab tetrodon 1920 Kraenzl.
Add+ Habenella Habenella garberi 1903 (Porter) Small
Add+ Habenella Habenella herzogii 2006 (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap.
Add+ Habenella Habenella odontopetala 1933 (Rchb.f.) Small
Add+ Platanthera P garberi 1897 (Porter) Chapm.
Add+ Platantheroides Pltd herzogii 2004 (Schltr.) Szlach.
Add+ Platantheroides Pltd odontopetala 2004 (Rchb.f.) Szlach.
Add+ Habenella Habenella floribunda 2006 (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap.
Add+ Platantheroides Pltd floribunda 2004 (Lindl.) Szlach.
Add+ Habenaria Hab autumnalis 1836 Poepp. & Endl.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Hab. odontopetala 'Hilltop' (1993) Hab. odontopetala 'Ebedear' (1981)
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