Habenaria vesiculosa A.Rich. 1828

TYPE Drawing by © M. Achille Richard and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Collection sheet

Collection sheet by © Kew and Kew's Plants of the World Website

Part shade

Common Name The Blistered Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Mauritus as a terrestrial with an obong-ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, terete, glabrous dotted stem carrying close set, alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, narrowing below in the attenuate petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, simple, many flowered inflorescence and carrying flowers with a thin spur, abruptly blistered and subglobose apically.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 2 4: 19 A Rich 1828

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