Habenaria longicornu Lindl. 1835 SECTION Habenariae
Photo by © Sachin Dangat and The Google Forum Groups Website
Drawing by © Wight
LATER
Common Name The Long Horned Habenaria
Flower Size
Found in southwestern India at elevations around 1700 to 2600 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, basally few sheathed, leafy stem carrying 4 to 5, usually alternate, sometimes basally crowded, linear-oblong to linear, acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on an erect, 3.6 to 5.6" [9 to 14 cm] long, terminal, lax, 3 to 9 flowered inflorescence enveloped in the lower half by a few bracts, above narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white, subsessile flowers
Similar to H trifida but it is distinguished by its ovaries without peduncles, by its lip with an acuminate apex to the lateral lobes and by the abscence of the filiform appendages on the lateral lobes of the lip.
Synonyms Blephariglottis longicornu (Lindl.) Raf. 1837; Habenaria decipiens Wight 1851; Habenaria montana A.Rich. 1841; Habenaria montana Wight 1851; Orchis longicornu B.Heyne ex Wall 1832; Plantaginorchis longicornu (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Numer. List: n.° 7027 B.Heyne ex Wall. 1832 as Orchis montana nom. nud.
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 322 Lindley 1835
Fl. Tellur. 2: 38 Raf 1837 as Blephariglottis longicornu
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 15: 73 A Rich. 1841 as H montana
Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: 14 Wight 1851 as H decipiens
Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 14 Wight 1851 as H montana nom. illeg.
Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1714 Wight 1851 as H montana nom. illeg. drawing fide
Indian Orchids Guide to Identification and Culture vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing good;
Orchids of Nilgris Joseph 1987 drawing fide;
Richardiana 6: 32 Szlach. & Kras-Lap 2006 as Plantaginorchis longicornu
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
