Brachycorythis laotica (Gagnep.) Summerh. 1955 Drawing by © A Richard and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

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Common Name The Laos Habenaria

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Found in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in mixed deciduous forests, seasonal evergreen forets and bamboo thickets at elevations of 400 to 700 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying 4 to 9, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence carrying white to purple to pale green flowers often with purple lines, spots or a yellow blotch at the base

Synonyms *Habenaria laotica Gagnep. 1931; Phyllomphax laotica (Gagnep.) Szlach. 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934 as Habenaria laotica drawing fide; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as Habenaria laotica; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Flora of Thailand Vol 12 Part 1 Orchidaceae Pedersen, Kurzweil, Sudee & Cribb 2011 drawing fide;

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