Habenaria polytricha Rolfe 1896 SECTION Medusiformes Kraenzl

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Common Name The Many Haired Habenaria - In China Si Lie Yu Feng Hua

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines in thickets, bamboo forests and broad leaved evergreen forests at elevations of 300 to 1100 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, glabrous stem enveloped by several tubular sheaths below and 7 to 12, above, oblong-lanceolate, to oblanceolate, herbaceous, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 6 to 18" [15 to 40 cm] long, densely 10 to 40 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, long-acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Differs from H andamanica in the far longer divisions of the petals. Differs from H ternatea in having the frot lobe of the lip divided into many filiform segments." Rolfe 1896

Synonyms Medusorchis polytricha (Rolfe) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Hooker's Icon. Pl. 25: t. 2496 Rolfe 1896

Hooker's Icon. Pl. 25: t. 2496 Rolfe 1896 drawing fide

Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 489 Szlach 2004 as Medusorchis polytricha

A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok;

Flora of China Vol 25: 145 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

Flora of China Vol 25: 196 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok;

The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide;

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