Habenaria aristulifera Rchb.f. 1855

Collection sheet and drawings by © Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name The Small Spike Carrying Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Philippines in montane forests at elevations around 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a slender stem carrying towards the middle oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, acute leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, racemose, slender, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, laxly 14 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Habenaria cumingii Kraenzl. & Schltr. 1898

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol II Ames 1908; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide;

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