Habenaria parvipetala J.J.Sm. 1905 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl

TYPE Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Small Petaled Habenaria

Flower Size .8 [2 cm]

Found in Java in montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a large, underground tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 4 to 6, sessile, well spaced, elongate to lanceolate, ovate, acuminate leaves grading smaller above into bracts, that blooms on a terminal, erect, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, to 12 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, finely pointed, concave, very finely toothed on the margins, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Pecteilis parvipetala (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018; Plantaginorchis parvipetala (J.J.Sm.) Szlach. 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Die Orchideen Von Java J.J. Sm. 1905;

Die Orchideen Von Java J.J. Sm. 1908 drawing fide;

Orchids of Java Comber 1990;

Richardiana 4: 65 Szlach 2004 as Plantaginorchis parvipetala

Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 53 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis parvipetala

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