Habenaria pectinata D.Don 1825 SECTION Habenariae Photo courtesy of H Lumen and His Lumen Plantes Vivaces Website

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Common Name The Comb-Like Habenaria [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Pakistan, western Himalayas and Sikkim at elevations around 900 to 3500 meters as a warm to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a fusiform tuber giving rise to a leafy stem with tubular, imbricate sheaths and carrying 6 to 8, distant, narrowly lanceolate-ensiform to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sessile leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, subdensely 7 to many flowered, glabrous, 2.4 to 8" [6 to 20- cm] long inflorescence with leafy, lanceolate, acuminate, 5 veined floral bracts.

Synonyms Habenaria ensifolia Lindl. 1835; Habenaria ensifolia var. gigantea (Pradhan) P.K.Sarkar 1984; Habenaria ensifolia var. khasiensis (Pradhan) P.K.Sarkar 1984; Habenaria gerardiana Lindl. 1832; Habenaria pectinata subsp ensifolia Soo' 1929; Kryptostoma pectinatum (D.Don) Olszewski & Szlach. 2000; Ochyrorchis ensifolia (Lindl.) Szlach. 2004; Ochyrorchis pectinata (D.Don) Szlach. 2004; *Orchis pectinata Sm.1806

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001;Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as H marginata