Habenaria wolongensis K.Y.Lang 1984 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl
Photos by © Orchid Society of China Website
Drawing by © Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010
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Common Name The Wolong Habenaria [Wolongzhen a town in Sichuan Province China] - In China Wo Long Yu Feng Hua
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in western Sichuan province of China in forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with oblong, fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, pubescent stem carrying 2, nearly opposite, spreading horizontally, adaxially with yellowish white markingss, cordate to ovate, slightly fleshy, abruptly narrowing below into the amplexicaul base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, pubesccent, racemose, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, ciliate, acuminate floral bract.
CAUTION!! Kew puts this species as a synonym of Habenaria aitchisonii Rchb.f. 1886, I have left them separate for now
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Acta Phytotax. Sin. 22: 314 K Y Lang 1984
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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