Habenaria linearifolia Maxim.1859
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EARLY 
Common Name The Linear Leaved Habenaria - In China Xian Ye Shi Zi Lan - In Korea Jam ja ri nan cho
Flower Size 1.45" [3.6 cm]
Found in eastern Russia, Japan, Korea and Anhui, north Fujian, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shangdong and Zhejiang provinces of China in forests and grasslands along valleys at elevations of 200 to 1500 meters as a cold growing terrestrial with ovoid to globose, fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, terete stem with 4 to 7, below the middle, linear, amplexicaul sheathing, acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, glabrous, 2 to 6.4" [5 to 16 cm] long, 8 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate apically, shorter than the ovary, floral bracts
Synonyms Fimbrorchis linearifolia (Maxim.) Szlach. 2004; Fimbrorchis linearifolia subsp. schindleri (Schltr.) Szlach. 2004; Fimbrorchis linearifolia subsp. schindleri (Soó) Szlach. 2004; Habenaria linearifolia f. integrifolia Ohwi 1933; Habenaria linearifolia subsp. schindleri Soó 1929; Habenaria linearifolia var. longicalcarata (Miyabe & Tatew.) K.Inoue; Habenaria sagittifera var. linearifolia (Maxim.) Takeda 1915; Habenaria yezoensis var. longicalcarata Miyabe & Tatew. 1937
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans 9: 269 Maxim. 1859
Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 29: (391) Takeda 1915 as H sagittifera var. linearifolia
Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 26: 373 Soo 1929 as Habenaria linearifolia subsp. schindleri
Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 2: 157 Ohwi 1933 as Habenaria linearifolia f. integrifolia
Trans. Sapporo Nat. Hist. Soc. 15: 49 Miyabe & Tatew. 1937 as Habenaria yezoensis var. longicalcarata
Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 492 Szlach 2004 as Fimbrorchis linearifolia
Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 492 Szlach 2004 as Fimbrorchis linearifolia subsp. schindleri
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok;
Fl. Japan 4b: 220 K.Inoue 2016 as Habenaria linearifolia var. longicalcarata
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis linearifolia
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