Habenaria lindleyana Steud. 1840
Photos by David Jubineau
Drawing by Gunnar Seidenfaden
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Common Name Lindley's Habenaria [John Lindley English Botanist and Taxomonist 1800's] - In Thailand Wan khao nieo, Nang ua noi, Ueang din, Nang krai, Nang kraitua phu, Nang tai tua phu, Ueang dok het khon, Nang tai noi, Proa dok]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in [some cite Malaysia?] Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in seasonal evergreen, deciduous, pine and bamboo forests at elevations of 10 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial needing a dry winter rest with a rosette of 3 to 6, basal, ovate, acute to acuminate, mucronate leaves grading above into 4 to 12, spreading to erect, lanceolate, acute to acuminate sterile bracts that blooms in the late summer and fall on a terminal, erect, glabrous, 6 to 20" [15 to 50 cm] long overall, rachis 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, semi dense to lax, 2 to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying successive opening, large white flowers.
Synonyms Habenaria columbae Ridl.1900; Habenaria latifolia Lindl. 1835; Habenaria macroptera Gagnep. 1931
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 321 Lindley 1835 as H latifolia nom. illeg.
* Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 717 Steud. 1840
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 28: 390 Rchb.f 1900 as H columbae Bull. Soc. Bot. France 78: 72 Gagnep 1931 as H macroptera
Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 78: 614 Gagnepain 1934 as H macroptera
Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 78: 591 Gagnepain 1934 as H macroptera drawing fide;
Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 78: 614 Gagnepain 1934 as Habenaria columbae;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 as H columbae fig 27 drawing good;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 as H columbae corrections;
Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle % No 71 Seidenfaden 1972 as H columbae;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as H columbae;
Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as H columbae;
Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 as H columbae photo fide;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;
A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide;
A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide;
Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 photo fide;
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