Habenaria spencei Blatt. & McCann 1932 SECTION Habenaria
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Common Name Spence's Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in the western Ghats of India in dense jungle at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with undivided, elliptic tubers giving rise to an erect, leafy in the upper half, provided with closely adpressed sheaths below stem carrying oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, membraneous, pale green, wavy margin, midrib depressed above, 3 parallel less distinct nerves on each side leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, laxly 8 to 11 flowered inflorescence with the flowers all held to one side and with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, usually shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying pale yellow flowers.
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Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 36: 17 Blatt. & McCann 1932
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