Habenaria ternatea Rchb.f. 1876 SECTION Medusiformes Kraenzl
Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Type Drawing by © Moseley and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Ternate Habenaria [An Island in the northern Moluccas archipelago]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in the Moluccas at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters as a warm to cool growing terrestrial that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-acuminate, just shorter than the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms Medusorchis ternatea (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 15: 112 Rchb.f 1876
Tidsskrift bd 68 hft 1 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand V Seidedenfaden 1973 drawing good;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 489 Szlach 2004 as Medusorchis ternatea
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