Habenaria harroldii D.L.Jones 1998
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © D L Jones and The Orchidan 12: 419- 420 1998
Photoby © Andrea Van Kampen and The FRASER COAST PLANTS Website
Common Name Harrold's Habenaria [Australian Botanist current] - The Southern Rein Orchid
Flower Size .52 to .68" [1.3 to 1.7 cm]
Found in southern Queensland Australia among low shrubs and grasses in sparse woodlands in loose colonies at elevations of 5 to 100 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with ovoid to obovoid, fleshy, somewhat irregular tubers giving rise to 3 to 5 basal, in a loose radical rosette, obliquely erect to spreading, dark green, lanceoalte, subacute leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, slender, wiry, provided with 5 to 6, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate bracts, 6 to 18" [15 to 45 cm] long, 3 to 25 flowered inflorescence with almost as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to H xanthantha but H harroldii has a more robust plant with larger white flowers rather than yellow flowers and H harroldii has much larger, widely spreading perianth segments." D L Jones 1998
Synonyms Pecteilis harroldii (D.L.Jones) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orchadian 12: 414 Jones 1998
Orchadian 12: 416 Jones 1998 drawing
Orchadian 12: 417 Jones 1998Photo
Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2004 photo fide
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilus harroldii
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