Habenaria parvifloraLindl.

Small Flowered Habenaria

WFO wfo-0000978345 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Habenaria parviflora, photographed by aacocucci
fig. a aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-01-25 / obs. 6184387
Habenaria parviflora, photographed by aacocucci
fig. b aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11022161
Habenaria parviflora, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11022156

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Habenaria parviflora is native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela Argentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaEcuadorGuyanaParaguayUruguayVenezuela
Native distribution of Habenaria parviflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Guyana GUY
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Habenaria angulosa Barb.Rodr.
  • Habenaria caaguazuensis Cogn.
  • Habenaria demerarensis Rchb.f. ex M.R.Schomb.
  • Habenaria demerarensis Rchb.f.
  • Habenaria mello-leitonii Ruschi
  • Habenaria montevidensis Lindl.
  • Habenaria montevidensis f. parviflora (Lindl.) Pabst
  • Habenaria montevidensis f. reichenbachiana (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst
  • Habenaria montevidensis var. parviflora (Lindl.) Pabst
  • Habenaria montevidensis var. reichenbachiana (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst
  • Habenaria montevidensis var. tucumanensis Griseb.
  • Habenaria pariquerensis Hoehne
  • Habenaria parviflora f. reichenbachiana (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst
  • Habenaria parviflora f. robusta Hoehne
  • Habenaria reichenbachiana Barb.Rodr.
  • Habenaria uruguayensis Garay

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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