Habenaria calcicola Aver. 2010

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Common Name The Limestone Loving Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Vietnam in primary broad-leaved closed wet forest on very steep rocky slopes and cliffs of low remnant mountains composed with highly eroded solid marble-like limestone at elevations of 400 to 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing lithophyte or terrestrial with 3 to 6 radical, elliptic to narrowly obovate leaves grading above to several, narrowly triangular, acute, leaf-like bracts that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, erect, subdense to dense, to 6" [15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying sweetly fragrant flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Turczaninowia 13(2): 42 Averyanov 2010 drawing fide

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