Habenaria schindleri Schltr. 1920
Photos by © Orchid Society of China Website
Drawing by © Wu Zhanghua
THROUGH MID 
Common Name Schindler's Habenaria - In China Shi Zi Lan
Flower Size 1.45" [3.6 cm]
Found in Korea, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hebei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning and Zhejiang provinces of China in forests and grasslands along valleys at elevations of 200 to 1700 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with oblong to ovoid, fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, terete stem carrying 4 to 7, linear, amplexicaul-sheathing, acuminate leaves that blooms in the summer through mid fall on an erect, glabrous, 2.2 to 7.2" [5.5 to 18 cm] long, 6 to 25 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, basal ones longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Separated from H sagittifera by the petals and the slashed lateral lobes of the labellum. The petals on the other hand are more reminiscent of H linearifolia. Schlechetr 1920
Synonyms Fimbrorchis linearifolia subsp. schindleri (Schltr.) Szlach. 2004; Habenaria sagittifera f. lacerata Matsuda 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 25: 121 Matsuda 1911 as H sagittifera f. lacerata
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 354 Schlechter 1920
Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 648 Szlach 2004 as Fimbrorchis linearifolia subsp. schindleri
Flora of China Vol 25: 145 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations: 197 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
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