Habenaria linguella Lindl.1835
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Common Name The Small Tongued Habenaria [refers to the small lip]- In China Po Shen
Flower Size .6 [1.5 cm]
Found in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong and Vietnam in forests and grasslands in full sun at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, terete, glabrous stem carrying 3 to 4, narrowly oblong to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, amplexicaul base leaves grading to 3 to 9, bract-like leaflets above that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, 1" to 2.4" [2.5 to 6 cm] long, densely 9 to 20 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, ciliate, shorter to just longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Related to H acuifera but it has a downcurved spur that is then straight, while H linguella has a downturning spur that is curved. H rostellifera has a much shorter spur, narrower petals and longer lateral lobes of the lip.
Synonyms Centrochilus gracilis Schauer 1843; Habenaria acuifera var. linguella (Lindl.) Finet 1901; Habenaria chrysantha Schltr. 1921; Habenaria endothrix Miq. 1861; Habenaria simeonis Kraenzl. 1921; Pecteilis linguella (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 325 Lindley 1835
Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19(Suppl. 1): 435 Schauer 1843 as Centrochilus gracilis
Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19(Suppl. 1): 435 Schauer 1843 as Centrochilus gracilis Drawing fide
J. Bot. Néerl. 1: 92 Miq 1861 as H endothrix;
Rev. Gén. Bot. 13: 525 Finet 1901 as Habenaria acuifera var. linguella
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 25 Schlechter 1921 as H chrysantha;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 107 Schlechter 1921 as Habenaria simeonis;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
The Genera of Orchidceae in Hing Kong Hu 1977;
Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis linguella
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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