Habenaria digitata Lindl.1835 SECTION Habenaria
Photo by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo Courtesy of the Flora of Pakistan Website
Common Name The Fingered Habenaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Pakistan, western Himalayas, India, Assam, Nepal, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a small to large sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect, stem carrying alternate, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, undulate margin leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, secund, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, lax, several flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, longer than the flowers bracts and carrying fragrant flowers
Synonyms Bonatea benghalensis Griff. 1844; Bonatea herbacea Wall. ex Lindl. 1835; Bonatea panduana Lindl. ex Wall. 1832; Habenaria digitata var. travancorica (Hook.f.) Pradhan 1979; Habenaria graveolens Duthie 1906; Habenaria laciniata Dalzell 1850; Habenaria lindleyana Wight 1844; Habenaria travancorica Hook.f. 1890; Habenaria trinervia Wight 1851; Orchis mysorensis B.Heyne ex Wall. 1832
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing ok; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 drawing as H graveolens fide; Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934; Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934 as Habenaria digitata var foliosa; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 as H graveolens drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 drawing good; Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle % No 71 Seidenfaden 1972 as H digitata var foliosa; 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 as H graveolens drawing fide; Indian Orchids a Field Guide to Identification and Culture vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing ok; Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 as H digitata var travencorica; Indian Orchids a Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 as H duthie; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgris Joseph 1987 as H digitata var travancoria; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as H graveolens; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as H tranvancorica; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;
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