Habenaria lucida Wall. ex Lindl. 1835
Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and his Butterfly and Orchids Website
LATER 
EARLY 
Common Name The Shining Habenaria
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in deciduous and bamboo forests at elevations around 50 to 1300 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying a whorl of 2 to 6, cauline, elliptic, acute, green above, lighter green spattered with purple below leaves grading above into 5 to 10, erect to suberect, lanceolate, acuminate, margins minutely denticulate to shortly hairy sterile bracts that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, 6 to 9.2" [28 to 75 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with a 4.4 to 14.8" [11 to 37 cm] long rachis carrying lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, acuminate floral bracts
Synonyms Habenaria dilatata subsp. lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) S.S.Ying 1990; Habenaria recurva Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Habenaria recurva var. erectiflora Tang & F.T.Wang 1940; Habenella lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) Szlach. & Kras-Lap. 2006; Platanthera lucida Lindl. ex Wall 1832; Platantheroides lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895; Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as H recurva drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 as H recurva corrections; Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle % No 71 Seidenfaden 1972 as H recurva; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as H recurva; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; The Wild Orchids Of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo hmm; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Tun 2014 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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