Habenaria aristulifera Rchb.f. 1855
Photo by © Alexander Elias and PhytoImages Website
Collection sheet and drawings by © Renz and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Common Name The Small Spike Carrying Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in the Philippines in montane forests at elevations around 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a slender stem carrying towards the middle oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, acute leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, racemose, slender, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, laxly 14 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria cumingii Kraenzl. & Schltr. 1898
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 213 Rchb.f 1855;
Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 262 Kraenzl. & Schlechter 1898 as H cumingii
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol II Ames 1908;
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915 as H cummingii;
Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;
Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide;
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