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Common Name The Small Lipped Habenaria - In China Po Shen

Flower Size .6 [1.5 cm]

Found in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China and Vietnam in forests and grasslands at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, terete, glabrous stem carrying 3 to 4, narrowly oblong to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, amplexicaul base leaves grading to 3 to 9, bract-like leaflets above that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, 1" to 2.4" [2.5 to 6 cm] long, densely 9 to 20 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, ciliate floral bracts.

Synonyms Centrochilus gracilis Schauer 1843; Habenaria endothrix Miq. 1861

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide

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