Habenaria longifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1835

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Common Name The Long Leaved Habenaria

Flower Size .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm]

Found in the western Himalayas, Bangladesh, India and ?Nepal at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a slender, erect, leafy stem carrying scattered, erect, conduplicate, linear, acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with linear, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

Synonyms Pecteilis longifolia (Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Plantaginorchis longifolia (Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Numer. List: n.° 7060 Lindl. ex Wall. 1832 as Gymnadenia longifolia nom. nud.

* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 334 Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1835

The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Royal Botanic garden, Calcutta: Vol IX, Part II: 181 Duthie 1906;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;

Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide; Richardiana 4: 64 Szlach 2004 as Plantaginorchis longifolia

LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis longifolia

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