Habenaria ditricha Hook.f. 1890

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Common Name The Two Haired Habenaria

Flower Size .25" [.625 cm]

Found in northern penninsular Myanmar at lower elevations as a miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, linear, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms on a terminal erect, provided with a few membraneous sheaths, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, few flowered inflorscence with ovate-lanceolate, as long as the ovary floral bracts

Similar to Habenaria khasiana but H ditricha has a much shorter inflorescnece, different bracts with a shorter ovary and smaller flowers.

Synonyms Habenaria javanica 1892

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Brit. India 6: 151 Hooker 1890

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 162 Kraenzlin 1892 as H javanica

The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895

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