Habenaria carnea Weathers 1891 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Leaf Photos courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum & Co. WebsiteCopyright ©
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Common Name The Flesh Red Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Thailand on limestone hills at lower elevations as a small sized, hot to warm growing, deciduous terrestrial with several, basal, olivegreen with pale spotted leaves and blooms in the late summer on a terminal, erect, to 15 flowered, racemose inflorescence as the new growths become mature. The leaves fall after the flowers and rainy season fade in the early fall and the tubers go dormant for a few months in late fall and early winter.
Synonyms Habenaria carnea var concolor Ridley 1896; Habenaria claviformis Klinge 1898;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thaialand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 photo; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 2 1998 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 no 9 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 5 2009 photo;
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