Habenaria digitata Lindl.1835 Photos Courtesy of the Flora of Pakistan Website

Common Name The Fingered Habenaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Pakistan, western Himalayas, India, Assam, Nepal, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Myanamar, Laos and Cambodia at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a small to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, stem carrying alternate, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, undulate margin leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, secund, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, lax, several flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, longer than the flowers bracts

Synonyms Bonatea benghalensis Griff. 1844; Bonatea herbacea Wall. ex Lindl. 1835; Bonatea panduana Lindl. ex Wall. 1832; Habenaria digitata var. travancorica (Hook.f.) Pradhan 1979; Habenaria graveolens Duthie 1906; Habenaria laciniata Dalzell 1850; Habenaria travancorica Hook.f. 1890; Habenaria trinervia Wight 1851; Orchis mysorensis B.Heyne ex Wall. 1832

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 drawing; Indian Orchids vol 1 Pradhan 1976; Indian Orchids Vol 1 Pradhan 1876 as H duthie; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;

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