Habenaria sagittifera Rchb.f. 1845

Inflorescence and plant in situ Japan

Photos by © Mr Ponpoko.

EARLY

Common Name The Arrow Carrying Habenaria - In Japan mizu-tonbo (meaning: swamp dragonfly orchid)

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in Japan and China in lowland swamps as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with usually paired, small, ovoid tubers giving rise to a rather slender, elongate stem carrying a few, narrowly linear, acutish leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, loosely 8 to 12 flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Fimbrorchis oldhamii (Kraenzl.) Szlach. 2004; Fimbrorchis sagittifera (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 2004; Fimbrorchis tosaensis (Makino) Szlach. 2004; Habenaria tosaensis Makino 1892; Pecteilis sagittifera (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 3: 334 Rchb.f 1845

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 205 Kraenzlin 1892 as Habenaria oldhamii

Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 6: 48 Makino 1892 as Habenaria tosaensis nom. nud.

Repert Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Band 65 Orchidacearum Sibiriae Enumerato Kraenzlin 1931;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 492 SZlach 2004 as Fimbrorchis sagittifera;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 492 Szlach 2004 as Fimbrorchis oldhamii

Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 492 Szlach 2004 as Fimbrorchis tosaensis

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 53 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis sagittifera

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