Habenaria marginata Colebr. 1824 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl
Photo by © Pravin Kawale and The Flowers of India Website
Photo by © Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi and AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE ORCHIDS OF WESTERN HIMALAYA, INDIA LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. 2015
Drawing by © Duthie
Common Name The Golden Yellow Habenaria - In China Dian Nan Yu Feng Hua
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Thailand in deciduous forests, grasslands and at forest margins at elevations of 500 to 1200 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with small cylindric tubers giving rise to a reduced and sub-scapigerous stem carrying a few sub-radical, sessile, oblong to linear-oblong, yellow margined leaves grading above into 2 to 5, lanceolate, acuminate sterile bracts that blooms in the summer on a 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with erect, ovate-lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria aurantiaca Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Habenaria flavescens Hook.f. 1890; Habenaria fusifera Hook.f. 1890; Habenaria marginata var. flavescens (Hook.f.) T.Cooke 1907; Habenaria promensis Lindl. 1835; Orchis clavata B.Heyne ex Hook.f. 1890; Pecteilis marginata (Colebr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Platanthera marginata (Colebr.) Lindl. 1832
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Exot. Fl.: t. 136 Colebr. 1824
Numer. List: n.° 7038 Lindl. ex Wall. 1832 as Platanthera marginata nom. nud.;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 320 Lindley 1835 as H promesnsis
Fl. Brit. India 6: 150 Hooker 1890 as H flavescens
Fl. Brit. India 6: 147 Hooker 1890 as H fuscifera;
Fl. Brit. India 6: 150 Hooker 1890 as Orchis clavata;
The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995;
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II: 184 Duthie 1906
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II: tab 136 Duthie 1906 drawing ok;
Fl. Bombay 2: 721 T Cooke 1907 as H marginata var flavescens;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 418 Rolfe ex Downie 1925 as H aurantiaca;
Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934 as Habenaria aurantiaca;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as H aurantiaca fig 19 fide;
Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 Drawing good;
Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 as H marginata var fusifera;
Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as H aurantiaca;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing ok;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide;
Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991;
Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo fide;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok;
Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide;
LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 photo fide;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 52 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis marginata
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo Fide;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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