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Habenaria malintana (Blanco) Merr. 1918 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl

Photos © by Tripetch P.

Common Name The Malinta Habenaria [An area in the Philippines?] - In China Nan Fang Yu Feng Hua

Flower Size 1.1" [2.6 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Lesser Sunda Islands and the Philippines in deciduous, seasonal evergreen and pine forests and grasslands at elevations of 300 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with fleshy, ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, terete, stout stem carrying 3 to 4, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate apically, amplexicaul below into the base leaves grading above into 5 to 11, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, bract-like leaflets that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, 18" to 30.8" [45 to 77 cm] long, densely to more than 10 flowered inflorescence with a 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, rachis carrying narrowly lanceolate, ciliate floral bracts.

Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 cites H pelorioides as a synonym, I have left them separate for now.

Synonyms Habenaria dentata f. ecalcarata (King & Pantl.) Tuyama 1966; Habenaria dentata subsp. ecalcarata (King & Pantl.) Panigrahi & Murti 1999; Habenaria dentata var. ecalcarata (King & Pantl.) Hand.-Mazz. 1936; Habenaria geniculata var. ecalcarata King & Pantl. 1898; Kraenzlinorchis malintana (Blanco) Szlach. 2004; Odisha cleistantha S.Misra 2007; Odisha cleistantha subsp. flabellata S.Misra 2018; *Thelymitra malintana Blanco 1837

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol VI Ames 1920; Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 drawing ok; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 corrections; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 as H dentata var malintana drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philippiniana vol 1 Valmayor 1984 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Nagaland Deorani & Naithani 1995 drawing good; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Orchids India 252 Misra 2007 as Odisha cleistantha drawing fide; Orchids India 252 Misra 2007 as Odisha cleistantha subsp. flabellata S.Misra 2018; drawing fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand 2 Vaddhanaphuti 2009 photo fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok?; 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; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide; Terrestrial Orchids Swami 2016 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide; Odisha bonaccordensis (Orchidaceae), A new species from Western Ghats of Kerala, India K. Prasad, Jalal & Agrawala 2021 as Odisha cleistantha

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