Habenaria longifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1835

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Common Name The Long Leaved Habenaria

Flower Size .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm]

Found in the western Himalayas, Bangladesh, India and ?Nepal at elkevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a slender, erect, leafy stem carrying scattered, erect, conduplicate, linear, acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with linear, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

Synonyms Plantaginorchis longifolia (Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015

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