Habenaria crassilabia Kraenzl. 1921
Photos by © 1 st photo Nizaemon Yamashita/ others Yukawa and Yagi 2011
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Common Name The Thick Lipped Habenaria - In Japan Niijima-tonbo
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Found in Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces of China, Jeju-do Island province of Korea and the Izu Islands of Japan at elevations of 200 to 220 as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid-cylindrical, tubers giving rise to an erect, terete stem provided with 3, tubular, amplexicaul, membranaceous sheaths, uppermost sheaths with blade and carrying 3 to 5, oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, acute-acuminate, rather coriaceous, lucid, base contracted into amplexicaul sheath, green leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, ridged, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, rachis shorter than peduncle, provided with up to 5, scattered, lanceolate, acute, membranaceous scales, racemous, rather lax, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence with longer than or subequal to pedicallate ovaries, lanceolate, acute, membranaceous floral bracts and carrying pale, yellowish-green flowers.
Synonyms Habenaria chejuensis Y.N.Lee & K.Lee 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 108 Kraenzlin 1921
Korean J. Pl. Taxon. 28: 34 Y.N.Lee & K.Lee 1998 as H chejuensis
Flora of China Orchidaceae Vol 25 Zhengyi, Eaven and Deyuan 2009 as Synonym of H shweliensis not;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis crassilabia;
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