Habenaria commelinifolia (Roxb.) Wall. ex Lindl. 1835 Photo by © Anon
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Common Name The The Commelina-Like Leafed Habenaria - In China Fu E Yu Feng Hua
Flower Size .6" to .8" tall [1.5 to 2cm]
Found in the western Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam in forests at elevations around 375 to 1300 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a stem with 2 to 3 loose sheaths and carrying, scattered, oblong-lanceolate, acutem margins pale to white leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, laxly many flowered racemose inflorescence
Synonyms Orchis stylosanthes Ham. ex Hook.f. 1890; *Orchis commelinifolia Roxb. 1832; Platanthera commelinifolia (Roxb.) Lindl. 1828
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok /photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
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