Habenaria carnea Weathers 1891
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Common Name The Flesh Red Habenaria - In Thailand Wan ya nok we - Lin Mangkon Bai Chut
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Thailand on limestone hills in evergreen forests at lower elevations as a small sized, hot to warm growing, deciduous terrestrial with several, basal, olive green with pale spotted leaves and blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, as the new growths become mature, erect, 5.2 to 12" [13 to 30 cm] long, racemose, to 20 flowered, inflorescence . The leaves fall after the rose pink to white flowers arise and the rainy season fades in the early fall and then the tubers go dormant for a few months in late fall and early winter.
Synonyms Habenaria carnea var concolor Ridley 1896; Habenaria carnea var. minor Ridl. 1907; Habenaria claviformis Klinge 1898; Pecteilis carnea (Gower) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Smithanthe carnea (Weathers) Szlach. & Marg. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Garden (London, 1871-1927) 40: 257 Gower 1891
Orchid Rev. 2: 290 Rolfe 1894 as H carnea var nivosa;
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 32: 412 Ridley 1896 as H carnea var concolor
Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 17(1): 138 Klinge 1898 as H claviformis;
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula 1: 226 Ridley 1907;
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula 1: 226 Ridley 1907as H carnea var minor;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 corrections;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 photo fide;
The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide;
Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 2 1998 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 65 #1 2001 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 73 no 9 2004 photo fide;
Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 174 Szlach. & Marg. 2004 as Smithanthe carnea;
A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 5 2009 photo;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #9 2010 photo fide;
Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide;
A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #3 2012 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #6 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 photo fide;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis carnea;
Checklist of Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Saw and Chung 2017;
AOS Bulletin Vol 87 No 6 2018 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #11 2019 as H carnea var nivosa photo fide;
Orchid Rev. 130: 61 Christenson 2022 as H carnea f nivosa;
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