Habenaria elongata R.Br. 1810
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Common Name The Elongate Habenaria - In Australia - The White Rein Orchid
Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]
Found in the Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea and Queensland Australia at elevations of sea level to 400 meters in open woodlands and among grass on exposed coastal bluffs, headlands and islands as a large to giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 2 to 4, basal, blue green to mid green, conduplicate, linear, acute leaves then a distant single, basally conduplicate, smaller, narrowly elliptic leaf grading to much smaller bracts above that blooms in the summer on an erect, 12 to 24" [30 to 60 cm] long, 8 to 20 flowered inflorescence and carries faintly fragrant flowers in the early evening.
Synonyms Habenaria elongata var. leptophylla Renz 1987; Habenaria (Renz) D.L.Jones 2002; Habenaria millari F.M.Bailey 1891; Habenaria mutica Span. 1841; Pecteilis elongata (R.Br.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 313 R Br 1810
Linnaea 15: 477 Span. 1841 as H mutica;
Dept. Agric. Brisbane Bot. Bull. 3: 18 F.M.Bailey 1891 as H millarii
Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide;
Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide;
Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017;
Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017 as H leptophylla;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pectilis elongata;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pectilis mutica
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