Habenaria muricata (Schauer) Rchb.f. 1857 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893
Photo by © Anthony Lamb
Drawing by © Seidendfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing in error from China???????
Drawing by © Wu Zhanghua
Common Name The Muricate Habenaria [refers to the hairs on the inflorescence]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Borneo and the Philippines in shady forests at elevations of 120 to 300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a spiny [muricate] stem carrying 3 to 4, basal, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, thin, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on an erect, terminal, loosely many flowered inflorescence carrying small, greenish white flowers.
CAUTION The Drawing by Wu Zhanghua is from the Flora of China Vol 25 2009. I have no idea of what Habenaria it represents. In the book it is listed as H hystrix which is a synonym of H muricata. I can find no reference of its coming from China other than the Flora Sooooo??????
Synonyms *Dissorhynchium muricatum Schauer 1843; Habenaria graminea Náves 1880; Habenaria hystrix Ames 1908
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1 Ames 1905; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol II Ames 1908 as H hystrix; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol V Ames 1915 as H muricata; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide as H hystrix; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as H hystrix; Orchidiana Philippiniana vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as H hystrix; A Checklist of the Orchdis of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as H hystrix; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 as H hystrix photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009?????????; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ???????????; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide
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