Habenaria lucida Wall. ex Lindl. 1835
Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and hisButterfly and Orchids Website
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Common Name The Two Colored Liparis - In Thailand - Ueang hom toei, Khu lu, Thao khu lu - In China Zi Hua Yu Feng Hua
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in deciduous and bamboo forests at elevations around 50 to 1300 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying a whorl of 2 to 6, cauline, elliptic, acute, green above, lighter green spattered with purple below leaves grading above into 5 to 10, erect to suberect, lanceolate, acuminate, margins minutely denticulate to shortly hairy sterile bracts that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, 6 to 9.2" [28 to 75 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with a 4.4 to 14.8" [11 to 37 cm] long rachis carrying lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, acuminate floral bracts
Synonyms Habenaria crassilabia Kraenzl. 1921; Habenaria dilatata subsp. lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) S.S.Ying 1990; Habenaria recurva Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Habenella lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platanthera lucida Lindl. ex Wall 1832; Platantheroides lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as H recurva drawing fide; The Wild Orchids Of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide
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