Habenaria chlorina E.C.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874 SECTION Chlorinae Kraenzl 1893 TYPE for the section

Photo by © Tripetch P. and the Thai Nature Website

Full sun Hot CoolLATE summer EARLYfall

Common Name The Green Habenaria - in Thailand Nang ua si tong, Nang ua phrai, Ueang si tong

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Laos in humid to dry dipterocarp, oak and pine forests or in grassy forest clearings at elevations of 350 to 1300 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a stem carrying 2 to 5, cauline, scattered in the lower half of the stem, lanceolate-oblong, acute, mucronate leaves grading above to 1 to 7, narrowly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, erect to suberect, margins often stiff haired sterile bracts that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a glabrous, 4.8 to 12" [12 to 30 cm] long, lax to semidense, 6 to 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute to acuminate floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burman Grant 1895; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 corrections; Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle % No 71 Seidenfaden 1972; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo good; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Tun 2014 photo fide; A Guide to the Orchids of Myanmar Kurzweil & Lwin 2014 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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