Habenaria setifolia Carr 1935 SECTION Guilleminii
Photo by Lamb/ Drawing by © Chan Chew Lun
Common Name The Leaf Bristle Habenaria [Refers to the seta (bristle) at the apex of the leaf]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Borneo near Mt Kinabalu in hill forests usually near streams at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium to giant sized, cool growing terrestrial with subterreanean tubers giving rise to an erect, stout stem carrying 15 to 25, clustered in a whorl towards the apex, obovate, oblong-ovate to obovate-elliptic, shortly scuminate with an apical seta leaves taht blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, peduncle 5 to 8" [12.5 to 20 cm] long, provided with 3 narrowly elliptic, acuminate sheaths, rachis to 4.8" [12 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with narrowly elliptic, long-acuminate, spreading, shorter than the ovcary floral bracts.
"The closest entity to this species is H bantamensis but H setifolia differs in the lobing of the petals and lip, the blunt spur and the aristate lateral sepals." Carr 1935
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 8: 171 Carr 1935
The Plants of Mount Kinabalu vol 2 Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993;
Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim and J J Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide;
A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;
Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001;
The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide;
The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide
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