Habenaria reflexa Blume 1825 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Photo from © Seidenfaden 1992
Drawing of Side View of Flower
Drawing from © J J Smith 1908
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Common Name or Meaning The Back-Bent Habenaria
Flower Size .16" to .4" [6.5 to 1 cm]
Found in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java and Sumatra in evergreen forests, scrublands and grasslands at elevations of 125 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 6 , clusterd in the lower third of the stem, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, gradually narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaves and grading above into 5 to 9, suberect, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, mostly hairy margined sterile bracts that blooms in the late summer and fall on an erect, 4" to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, lax, 1 to many flowered, hairy inflorescence with the rachis being 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long and carrying ovate-lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms Habenaria murtonii Hook.f. 1890; Pecteilis reflexa (Blume) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 403 Blume 1825
Fl. Brit. India 6: 144 Hooker 1890 as H murtonii
Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905;
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula: 227 Ridley 1907 as H murtonii;
Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas: XX J.J.Smith 1908 drawing ok?;
Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing ok;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfadden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections photo fide;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
Orchids of Java Comber 1990;
The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001;
Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;
Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide;
Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing fide;
A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide;
Checklist of Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Saw and Chung 2017;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 53 2018 as Pecteilis reflexa
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