Habenaria multicaudata Sedgw. 1919 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl
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Common Name The Many Tailed Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in southern India in semi-evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 2200 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying clustered at the middle, elliptic-oblong, acute, tapering basally into a pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, loose, several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, lanceolate, acute floral bracts.
"A distinct and curious species, strongly characterized by the fantastic filiform appendages and the enormous anther cells, projecting beyond the flower when it is held in profile." L. J. Sedgwick 1919
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Rec. Bot. Surv. India 6: 352 Sedg. 1919
The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 Drawings fide;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976;
Orchids of Nilgris: 35 Joseph 1987 drawing fide;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide;
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;
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