Habenaria commelinifolia (Roxb.) Wall. ex Lindl. 1835 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893 TYPE for the section
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Common Name The Commelina-Like Leafed Habenaria - In China Fu E Yu Feng Hua - In Thailand Chuang Kham Dok Khao
Flower Size .6" to .8" tall [1.5 to 2cm]
Found in the western Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in grassy areas of forests at elevations around 375 to 2000 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a stem with 2 to 3 loose sheaths and carrying, scattered, oblong-lanceolate, acute margins, pale to white leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, laxly many flowered, racemose inflorescence with erect, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers
"Characterized by the long inflorescence with white flowers, strongly reflexed, gibbous lateral sepals, a lip with linear segments and a strongly incurved spur." Misra 2014
Synonyms Orchis stylosanthes Ham. ex Hook.f. 1890; *Orchis commelinifolia Roxb. 1832; Pecteilis commelinifolia (Roxb.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Platanthera commelinifolia (Roxb.) Lindl. 1828
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 451 Roxb. 1832 as Orchis commelinifolia;
Numer. List: n.° 7037 Lindley ex Wall 1832 as Platanthera commelinifolia nom. nud.
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 325 Wall ex Lindley 1835
Fl. Brit. India 6: 143 Ham ex Hooker 1890
Fl. Brit. India 6: 143 Ham ex Hooker 1890as Orchis stylosanthes;
The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895;
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 drawing fide;
Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 Drawings fide;
Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide;
Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991;
Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok /photo fide;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide;
LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis commelinifolia
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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