Habenaria panigrahiana S.Misra 1981 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl
Photo by © Ambika Prasad Research Foundation - APRF?
Drawing of H panigrahiana varparviloba;
Collection Sheet/drawing by © S Misra
Common Name Panigrahi's Habenaria [Indian expert on Classical Odissa Dance died 1997]
Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]
Found in eastern India in moist deciduous forests in shade at elevatons of 650 to 800 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with generally globose to rarely ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a cylindric, leafy from the base upwards, erect stems carrying 6 to 8 broad, alternate, membraneous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, undulate margins, veins and veinlets conspicupus, narrowing below into the base leaves, that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, racemose, 4.87 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long, laxly 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, 3 veined, subfalcate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the lower segment of the petal being much longer than the upper one, reflexed, straight, apices incurved, lower segments of the lip longer and at acute angle s to the middle one.” Misra 2014
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Habenaria panigrahiana S Misra, A new Distributional Record;
Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 as H panigrahiana var parviloba drawing fide;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018;
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018;
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