Habenaria heyneana Lindl. 1835 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893
Photos by © Dinesh Valke and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © J Joseph
EARLY
Common Name Heyn's Habenaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southwestern India in lateritic plateaus and open mountain grassy slopes at elevations of 500 to 1200 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with 1 to 2 somewhat ovaoid to oblong-ovoid, tubers giving rise to alternately imbricating, to subdistichous, to distichous, thin to coriaceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, rarely ovate, acute often mucronate leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, rarely dense, secund to subsecund, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, longer or shorter than the flowers floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria candida Dalzell 1850; Habenaria glabra A.Rich. 1841; Habenaria heyneana var. subpubens (A.Rich.) Pradhan 1979; Habenaria subpubens A.Rich. 1841
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
N.Wallich, Numer. List: n.° 7044 Lindley 1832 as Platanthera heyeana nom. nud.
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 320 Lindley 1835
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 15: 75 A Rich 1841 as H glabra;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 15: 75 A Rich.1841 as H subpubens
Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 262 Dalzell 1850 as H candida;
Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 Drawings fide;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 as Habenaria heyneana var. subpubens;
Orchids of Nilgris Joseph 1987 drawing fide;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 43 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide;
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;
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