Green Bonatea - Orchid Board

HumbCa · #1 07-11-2020, 12:39 PM

Hello.
I have this orchid I was never able to identify after much time, checked various places!
I think it belongs to the bonatea family, that's as much as I was able to identify, but I believe I could be wrong too.
Here is a picture:

I hope I can finally give her a name!

Afid · #2 07-11-2020, 01:24 PM

It is definitely in the Subtribe Orchidinae. I looked at the Bonatea species and didn't find any matches though, I would guess this is a Habenaria sp. I will do a bit more research and see if I can narrow it down a bit more.

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Do you happen to know where it came from? Sometimes it is possible to track down a species from what vendor sold it.

HumbCa · #3 07-11-2020, 01:32 PM

Hey, thanks for your reply, unfortunately I don't know where it came from!
I'm seriously thinking it's not even a bonatea, however bonatea is the closest match I got, I'll keep searching as well

DirtyCoconuts · #4 07-11-2020, 02:31 PM

Quite striking!

And if you have stumped afid, it must be a weird one!

estación seca · #5 07-11-2020, 02:35 PM

Welbome to the Orchid Board!

It will take time, but you can page through the various species and genera at the Internet Orchid Species Photographic Encyclopedia.

Bulbopedilum · #6 07-15-2020, 08:02 AM

A bit of a tangent, but if I may ask; How did you acquire this plant?

Could it be some hybrid?

Nice plant anyways

WaterWitchin · #7 07-15-2020, 10:30 AM

I really like that little green alien!!

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And yes, give Afid a chance to research a bit. He's a whiz at ID'ing!

Afid · #8 07-15-2020, 03:12 PM

so I have gone through the genus Habenaria a bit more, it seems to be part of the H. macronectar complex, but it is quite difficult to get farther than that.

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it is most likely to be H. macronectar itself.

HumbCa · #9 07-16-2020, 10:15 PM

Thank you all for helping me, I wasn't able to connect sooner

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Originally Posted by Afid

so I have gone through the genus Habenaria a bit more, it seems to be part of the H. macronectar complex, but it is quite difficult to get farther than that.

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it is most likely to be H. macronectar itself.

Thanks, I checked the encyclopedia link all week long but found nothing similar, I appreciate you getting that far, it's more than I thought I'd get and definitely more than I achieved so far!

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Originally Posted by Bulbopedilum

A bit of a tangent, but if I may ask; How did you acquire this plant?

Could it be some hybrid?

Nice plant anyways

I don't believe it's a hybrid, it was a present brought by someone that knows me way too well

HumbCa · #10 07-17-2020, 11:51 AM

I think I can put to rest this topic thanks to the valuable information provided by Afid, after all it wasn't a Bonatea but a Habenaria!

I found the following Link, which makes my plant a Habenaria Johannensis.

Thank you all again for helping me, and I hope someone finds this useful in the future.