Habenaria pantlingiana Kraenzl.1900 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl
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Common Name Pantling's Habenaria [English Botanist and plant Collector in India 1800's] in the Ryukyus - Ryukyu-sagi-so - In China Si Ban Yu Feng Hua - In Thailand Dok nang nuan
Flower Size 1/2" to 1.7" [1.3 to 1.6 cmlong]
Found in the Ryuykus, Taiwan, China Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Nepal and Vietnam in shady places of broad leafed evergreen forests or bamboo forests at elevations of 250 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect, elongate, glabrous stem enveloped in the lower half by tubular sheaths and in the upper half carrying 7, narrowly elliptic to obovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, stem clasping basally leaves that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal, racemose, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long; densely many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, caudate bracts and carrying sweetly fragrant flowers.
Similar to H ciliolaris but differs in the quite glabrpous scapes and the biparted petals portions of which are divaricated 180 degrees. The synonym H longitentaculata differs from the type in the long-tailed sepals, the bracts and the leaves.
Synonyms Habenaria cirrhifera Ohwi 1932; Habenaria longidenticulata Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 spalm; Habenaria longitentaculata Hayata 1914; Habenaria polytrichia (Hook.f.) Pradhan 1979; Habenaria polytrichoides Aver. 1988; Habenaria seshagiriana A.N.Rao 1985; Habenaria stenopetala var. polytricha Hook.f. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 5(1): 64 A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as H stenopetala var polytricha drawing fide;
The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1: 309 King & Pantling 1898 as H stenopetala var polytricha drawing fide;
*Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 892 Kraenzlin 1900
Icon. Pl. Formosan. 4: 127 Hayata 1914 as H longtentaculata;
Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 1: 141 Ohwi 1932
Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 as H cirrhifera;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture 2: 683 Pradhan 1976 as H polytricha drawing fide;
J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 6: 223 A N Rao 1985 as H seshagiriana;
Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 73: 432 Aver. 1988 as H polytrichoides nom. superfl.
Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as H seshagiriana;
Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 as Habenaria longidenticulata photo fide ;
Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;
A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok;
Flora of China Vol 25: 152 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25: 200 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
Flora of China Vol 25: 198 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide;
The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photo fide;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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