Habenaria spatulifolia C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893

Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Spatula Shaped Leaf Habenaria

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm] wide

Found in Myanmar as a miniature to small sized terrestrial with 2 to 5, obovate-spatula-shaped, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, slender, 4" [10 cm] long, 2 to few flowered inflorescence with large, broadly cymbiform, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; ,

* Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 140 C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f 1874

The Orchids of Burma: 342 Grant 1895 as H spatulaefolia;

Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;

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