Habenaria arietina Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Habenariae Photo by © David E. Boufford and the Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains Orchid Website

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Common Name The Ram's Horn Habenaria - In China Mao Ban Yu Feng Hua

Flower Size 1.6 to 2" [3 to 5 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, western Himalayas, Assam, Eastern Himalayas, Nepal and Vietnam on grassy slopes at elevations of 1500 to 3600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a fusiform tuber giving rise to a leafy, wide at the base tapering above stem carrying distichous, distant, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, sessile, becoming smaller up the stem leaves that blooms in the summer on a glabrous, 6 to 7.2" [15 to 18 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, narrowly lanceolate, acute, 5 veined bracts and carrying long-lasting, fragrant

Synonyms Habenaria ensifolia var. gigantea (Pradhan) P.K.Sarkar 1984; Habenaria ensifolia var. khasiensis (Pradhan) P.K.Sarkar 1984; Habenaria intermedia var. arietina (Hook.f.) Finet 1901; Habenaria pectinata var. arietina (Hook.f.) Kraenzl 1898; Habenaria pectinata var. gigantea Pradhan 1979; Habenaria pectinata var. khasiensis Pradhan 1979; Ochyrorchis arietina (Hook.f.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

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