Habenaria robustior (Wight) Hook.f. 1890

TYPE Drawing by © Wight. and The Plant Illustrations Webpage

Common Name The Robust Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and the Ryukyu Islands? as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a tall, slender, naked below, leafy above stem carrying suberect to spreading, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate above, amplexicaul below leaves grading smaller above into bracts that blooms on a terminal, erect, 2 to 6 [5 to 15 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, twice longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying small, erect flowers.

CAUTION !!! According to Hooker 1890, Wight’s drawing above has the flowers larger, the bracts shorter and the side segments of the lip much larger and more slender than in his collected specimens which bear the manuscript name of H persimils.

Synonyms *Peristylus robustior Wight 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1699 Wight 1851 as Peristylus robustior drawing fide

* Fl. Brit. India 6: 160 Hooker f 1890

Orchids of the Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing hmm

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