Habenaria amplifolia Cheeseman 1901
Photo by © Gerald McCormack and The Cook Islands Bishop Museum WebPage
Drawing by © Oliver Whalley, Whistler & Cribb 2011
Common Name The Leafy Habenaria - in the Cook Islands The Rarotonga Ground-Orchid
Flower Size
Found on Cook Island [Rarotonga] in the Pacific Ocean in shaded forested ravines near streams at elevations around 250 meters and is seriously endangered as a large to giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying in the central part, elliptic-lanceolate to obovate, acuminate leaves that blooms on an erect, to 40" [10 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acuminate bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 6: 298 Cheeseman 1901
LANKESTERIANA 11(2), Whistler & Cribb 2011 photo fide
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