Habenaria reflexa Blume 1825 Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Back-Bent Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia Java and Sumetra at elevations of 150 to 500 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with 3 to 5 basal lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 10 to 24" [25 to 60 cm] long, hairy inflorescence with a few sterile leaf bracts and lanceolate, acute floral bracts

Synonyms Habenaria murtonii Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html], Kew Monocot list [http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do], IPNI [http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on]; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2003