Habenaria shweliensis W.W.Sm. & Banerji 1914

Collection sheet by © A Roger courtesy of Kew's Plants of the World Online Website

Common Name Shweli's Habenaria [Scottish Botanist early 1900's] - In China Zhong Mian Yu Feng Hua

Flower Size

Found in Myanmar and southwestern Guizhou and northwestern Yunnan provinces of China on grassy slopes at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ellipsoid tuber giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 4 to 7, somewhat clustered below, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, lanceolate to oblong, thin textured, acute, contracted below into the amplexicaul base leaves and 3 to many bractlike leaves above that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, 14 to 30 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellowish green, horizontally spreading flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Rec. Bot. Surv. India 6: 33 W.W.Sm. & S.C.Banerji 1914

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

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