Habenaria rostrata Wall. ex Lindl. 1835 Photo by © Tour Thai and Han Loa Vietnam Website

Common Name The Beaked Habenaria - In China Hui Fang Po Shen - In Thailand Ua Kaem Cham

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in south China, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in forests, forest margins and thickets at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with oblong, fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, terete, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 5, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, amplexicaul based leaves and grading above into 4 to 8, bract-like leaflets that blooms in the summer on an erect, nearly corymbiform, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, ciliate, aristate apically floral bracts.

CAUTION I am not at all convinced that this determination is correct. Appears to be H rostellifera, please use with caution

Synonyms Platanthera rostrata Lindl. ex Wall 1832

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide

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