Habenaria dentirostrata Tang & F.T.Wang 1936

Drawing by © Seidenfaden and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name The Toothed Rostellum Habenaria

Flower Size

Found in Myanmar and Laos at elevations around 600 to 700 meters as a warm growing terrestrial with 3 to 8 glabrous, lanceolate-elliptic leaves scattered in the lower half that blooms on an erect, lax to semidense, few flowered inflorescence.

There are 3 species considered to be very similar and refered to as the H hosseusii group, H hosseusii from Thailand, H dentirostrata from Laos and Myanmar and H mandersii occuring from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.

Synonyms Kraenzlinorchis dentirostrata (Tang & F.T.Wang) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 7: 137 Tang & Wang 1936

Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 58 Szlach 2004 as Kraenzlinorchis dentirostrata

Gard. Bull. Singapore 60: 55 Kurzweil 2008 ;

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