Habenaria andamanica Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Medusiformes Kraenzl
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Drawing by © Matilda Smith
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Common Name The Andaman Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the Andaman Islands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with globose tubers giving rise to 3 to 4, ovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile leaves crowded towards the middle of the stout stem that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, terminal, racemose, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Medusorchis andamanica (Hook.f.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Fl. Brit. India 6: 134 Hooker 1890
Hooker's Icones Planetarum 22 [Vol II]: 2200 Hooker 1894
Hooker's Icones Planetarum 22 [Vol II]: 2200 Hooker 1894drawing fide;
The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1954;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfadden & Smitnand 1959;
Tidsskrift bd 68 hft 1 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand V Seidedenfaden 1973 drawing fide;
Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing good;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 489 Szlachetko 2004 as Medusorchis andamanica
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007
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