Habenaria andamanica Hook.f. 1890 Drawing by © Matilda Smith

Part shade Fall toWinter

Common Name The Andaman Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the Andaman Islands with globose tubers giving rise to 3 to 4, ovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, racemose, laxly many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Medusorchis andamanica (Hook.f.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Hooker's Icones Planetarum 22 [Vol II] Hooker 1894 drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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