Habenaria lucida Wall. ex Lindl. 1835
Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and his Butterfly and Orchids Website
Drawing by © Su- Horng-Jye and Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010
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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; Pecteilis lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Platanthera lucida Lindl. ex Wall 1832; Platantheroides lucida (Wall. ex Lindl.) Szlach. 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Numer. List: n.° 7047 Lindley ex Wall 1832 as Platanthera lucida; nom. nud.
* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 319 Wall. ex Lindley 1835
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878;
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 420 Rolfe ex Downie 1925 as H recurva
The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895;
Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934 as H recurva;
Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 10: 41 Tang & F.T.Wang 1940 as H recurva var erectiflora;
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;
Coloured Ill. Indig. Orchids Taiwan 2: 217 S S Ying1990 as Habenaria dilatata subsp. lucida
Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;
The Wild Orchids Of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo hmm;
Richardiana 4: 107 Szlach 2004 as Platantheroides lucida
A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok;
Richardiana 6: 37 Szlach & Kras lap. 2006 as Habenella lucida
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 ;
Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
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;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis lucida
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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