Habenaria malleifera Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Habenariae
Inflorescence Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Flower Closeup Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and his Nature Photo Website
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Common Name The Hammer-Carrying Habenaria
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, China and Vietnam at elevations of 1500 to 1850 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a globose-fusiform tuber giving rise to a stout, scurfy stem with 4, clustered on the lower third of the stem, broadly elliptic to oblanceolate, acute, petiolatebase leaves and broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate sheaths above that blooms in the late summer on an erect, laxly many flowered, scurfy, 3.2 to 8.4" [13 to 21 cm] long inflorescence
Synonyms Habenaria furfuracea Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing ok; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007
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