Habenaria lamii J.J.Sm. 1929 SECTION Acuiferae
Drawing by © Van Royen
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name Lam's Habenaria [Dutch Botanist Original Collector of species 1900's]
Flower Size
Found on New Guinea in montane grasslands at elevations of 3200 to 3300 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a short stem carrying widely spaced, small, erect-patent, ovate, acuminate, undulate, keeled beneath, rigid leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle 4.8 to 5.6" [12 to 14 cm] long, with 4 tubular, long acuminate bracts, rachis angular, glabrous, 2.4" [6 cm] long, laxly 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with erect, strongly adpressed to the ovary, strongly concave, rhombic, acutely, long-acuminate, 3 nerved, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very small, strongly incurved, light green, outside suffused with dark brown, spur yellowish green flowers.
"This species can be easily separated from other species occurring in New Guinea by the combination of the following characters: cauline leaves, entire petals and 3-lobed lip with entire lobes." Kolanowska etal 2021
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Nova Guinea 14 338, pl. 41, 1 J J Smith 1929 Drawing fide;
A Guide to the Monocotyledons of Papua New Guinea Part 4 Orchidaceae [in Part] Howcroft 1984;
The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide;
Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017;
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