Habenaria grandifloriformis Blatt. & McCann 1932 SECTION Habenaria
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Drawing by © Sarat Misra
EARLY
Common Name The Large Flowered Habenaria
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in southern India in lateritic plateaus and mountain grassy slopes at elevations of 100 to 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing lithophyte with 1 to 2 globose to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a short stem carrying 1 to 2, basal, flat against the substrate, coriceous, deep grass-green above, pale green beneath, 8 to 12 nerved, subopposite, orbicular-ovate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 2 to 8" [5 to 20 cm] long, longitudinally ribbed, few flowered inflorescence and carrying mildly fragrant flowers
Recognized by the short inflorescence carrying 1 to 3, larger white flowers with bipartite petals, the upper segment sepal like, the lower segment filiform." Sarat Misra 2014
Synonyms Habenaria grandiflora Lindl. ex Dalzell & Gibson 1861; Habenaria grandifloriformis var. aequiloba Blatt. & McCann 1932; Habenaria rotundifolia Lindl. 1835 nom. illeg.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 306 Lindley 1835 as Habenaria rotundifolia .
Bombay Fl.: 267 Lindl. ex Dalzell & Gibson 1861 as H grandiflora nom. illeg.
* J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 36: 17 Blatt. & McCann 1932
J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 36: 18 Blatt. & McCann 1932 as Habenaria grandifloriformis var. aequiloba
The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 Drawings fide;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;
Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 43 Jalal & Jayanth 2018
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 48 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide;
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;
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