Habenaria crinifera Lindl. 1835 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl

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Part ShadeWarm LATERsummer

Common Name or Meaning The Hair Carrying Habenaria [refers to the tepals and lip]

Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, India and Sri Lanka in tropical, dry, mixed evergreen forests at elevations up to 915 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial or epiphyte on tree trunks about 40" [1 meter] from the ground with a single, oblong to ovoid tuber giving rise to 2 to 4, basally clustered, oblong-lanceolate, acute somewhat tapering towards the base leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, 2.8 to 4.8" [7 to 12 cm] long, cylindrical, bracteate, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Habenaria schizochilus J.Graham 1839; Synmeria crinifera (Lindl.) Szlach. 2005; Synmeria schizochilus Nimmo 1839

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 323 Lindley 1835

Cal. Pl. Bombay: 252 J Graham 1839 as H schizochilus;

Cat. Pl. Bombay, Add.: [s.p.] Nimmo; 1839 as Symeria schizochilus;

Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 Drawings fide;

Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;

A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 56: 331 Szlach 2005 as Synmeria crinifera;

Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide;

Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide;

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis crinifera;

Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;

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