Habenaria acuminata (Thwaites) Trimen 1885 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893
Photo by © F. Suranjan
Drawing by © M.D.Dassanayake & F.R.Fosberg
Common Name The Acuminate Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in India and Sri Lanka on grassy slopes at elevations around 915 to 1530 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an oblong tuber giving rise to an erect, for 2" [5 cm] long naked, leafy stem carrying erect, lanceolate, setaceously acuminate, acute, indistinctly 5 to 7 veined, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, 12 to 18.8" [30 to 47 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with broadly lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, acute floral bracts.
Synonyms *Ate acuminata Thwaites 1861
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 309 Thwaites 1861 as Ate acuminata
*Syst. Cat. Fl. Pl. Ceylon: 91 Trimen 1885
A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide
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