Habenaria hollandiana Santapau 1957 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893

Drawing by © Wight

Common Name Holland's Habenaria [British Commandant of the internment camp in India during WW II]

Flower Size .68" [1.6 cm] long

Found in India, Assam and the eastern Himalayas on grassy slopes at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2, oblong-ovoid to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to 2 to 12, cluster at the lower 1/4th of the stem, becoming sheathing bracts below, obovate, to broadly oblanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, acute, minutely papillate marginally leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 9.2" [23 cm] long, terete, provided with oblong to lanceolate, lower ones longest, the upper ones smaller and semiamplexicaul, rachis 3.2 to 8.8" [8 to 22 cm] long, somewhat dense, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, minutely pappilate marginally, as long to longer than the ovary, floral bracts

Synonyms Habenaria affinis Wight 1851; Habenaria indica C.S.Kumar & Mamilal 1986; Habenaria malleifera var. hollandiana (Santapau) Pradhan 1979;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1707 Wight 1851 as H affinis nom. illeg. drawing fide;

*Fl. Purandhar: 126 Santapau 1957

Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966;

Indian Orchids: Guide Identif. & Cult. 2: 685 Pradhan 1979 as H malleifera var. hollandiana;

Taxon 35: 719 C.S.Kumar & Manilal 1986 as H indica nom. superfl.;

Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 43 Jalal & Jayanth 2018

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