Habenaria lobbii Rchb.f. 1876 SECTION Leptoceras
Photo by © André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Drawing by © Susanna Stuart-Smith 2003
Common Name or Meaning Lobb's Habenaria [English Orchid Collector in SE Asia 1800's]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Borneo in lowland limestone hills and lower montane mossy forest at elevations of 100 to 1100 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with thick, fleshy, wooly hairy roots and 4 to 6 aranged at the base, occasionally one on the inflorescence, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate to the sheath, somewhat fleshy, undulate margin, conspicuous midrib dorsally, 7 main nerved leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, 15" to 42" [37 to 85 cm] long, lax, 12 to 22 flowered inflorescence with ovate-elliptic, long-acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts
Similar to H leptoceras but with somewhat larger flowers and the spur is raised like the abdomen of ichneumonid [Wasp].
Synonyms Fimbrorchis havilandii (Kraenzl.) Szlach. 2004; Habenaria havilandii Kraenzl. 1898; Habenaria marmorophila Ridl. 1896; Pecteilis lobbii (Rchb.f.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Linnaea 41: 50 Rchb.f 1876;
Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 427 Kraenzlin 1898 as Habenaria havilandii J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 31: 304 Ridley 1896 as Habenaria marmorophila
A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as H marmorophila photo fide; A to Z of SE Asian Orchid Species O'Byrne 2001 as H marmorophylla photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Woods 2003 drawing/photo fide; Orchidee (Hamburg) 55: 491 Szlach 2004 as Fimbrorchis havilandii Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
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