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
"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; 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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