Habenaria furcifera Lindl. 1835

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Common Name The Fork-Carrying Habenaria

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found from Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, lower India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Pakistan, Myanamar and Thailand and Yunnan China at elevations of 10 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with a fusiform tuber giving rise to a glabrous stem with imbricating, tubular basal sheaths and carrying 3 to 5 clustered in the basal third, oblong-ovate, to ovate-elliptic, acute, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, 5.6" to 11.2" [14 to 28 cm] long, laxly several to many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Habenaria hamigera Griff. 1844; Habenaria modesta Dalzell 1850; Habenaria ovalifolia Wight 1851; Habenaria tenuicornis Wall. ex Hook.f. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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