Habenaria barbata Wight ex Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893
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Drawing by © M.D.Dassanayake & F.R.Fosberg and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
Common Name The Bearded Habenaria
Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]
Found in southern India and Sri Lanka in submontane forests in shade at elevations of 1000 to 1220 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with oblong to pyriform tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying lanceolate, acute, 5 to 7 nerved, grading smaller and more conduplicate above, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 3.2" [8 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the flowers floral bracts.
Synonyms Ate virens Lindl. 1835; Habenaria virens (Lindl.) Abeyw. 1959
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 327 Lindley 1835 Ate virens;
* Fl. Brit. India 6: 133 Wight ex Hook.f. 1890
Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci. 2: 83 Abeyw. 1959 as H virens nom. illeg.
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 as H virens;
A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide;
Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 as H virens drawing fide
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