Habenaria diphylla (Nimmo) Dalzell 1850 SECTION Diphyllae Kraenzl TYPE for the section

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Drawing

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Common Name The Two-Leaved Habenaria - in China Er Ye Yu Feng Hua

Flower Size .2 to .38" [5 to 9 mm]

Found in the the Chinese Himalayas, India, Bangladesh, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines on open grassy, subalpine slopes at elevations of 3300 to 4900 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with ovoid-fusiform tubers giving rise to an erect stem enveloped by a single, basal sheath and carrying from below the middle of the stem, a single, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, tapering below into a long, narrow tubular sheath leaves that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on an erect, minutely glandular-pubescent, decurved, .6 to 1.6" [1.5 to 4 cm] long, rather laxly 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-pubescent margined, 5 veined, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying narrowly campanulate, white flowers.

Synonyms Habenaria ahernii Schltr. 1915; Habenaria aitchisonii var. josephi (Rchb.f.) Hook.f. 1890; Habenaria clarkei Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria cordata Náves 1880; Habenaria diphylla var. josephi (Rchb.f.) N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb 2001; Habenaria jardoniana Wight 1851; Habenaria josephi Rchb.f. 1888; Habenaria sutteri Rchb.f. 1852; *Liparis diphyllos Nimmo 1839

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

J.Graham, Cat. Pl. Bombay: 252 Nimmo 1839 Liparis diphyllos

* Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 262 Dalzell 1850

Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1715 Wight 1851 as H jardoniana

Linnaea 25: 229 Rchb.f 1852 as H sutteri;

F.M.Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed. 3. 4(13A): 250 Naves 1880 as H cordata nom. illeg.

Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 3: 114 Rchb.f 1888 as H josephi

Fl. Brit. India 6: 152 Hooker f 1890 as Habenaria aitchisonii var. josephi

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 148 Kraenzlin 1892 as H clarkei;

The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906

The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 drawing ok;

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol II Ames 1908;

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 502 Schlechter 1915 as H ahernii;

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol V Ames 1915;

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 419 Rolfe ex Downie 1925 as H humistrata;

The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 Drawings fide;

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

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

The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981;

Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide;

Edinburgh J. Bot. 58: 114 N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb 2001 as Habenaria diphylla var. josephi

Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as H diphylla var josephii drawing fide;

Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo ok;

Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo good;

Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide;

Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 drawing fide;

A Guide to the Orchids of Myanmar Kurzweil & Lwin 2014 photo fide;

Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide;

LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015;

Handbook Orchids of Sikkim and Northeast India Pradhan 2016 photo fide;

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

Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;

Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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