Habenaria pectinata D.Don 1825 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl
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Common Name The Comb-Like Habenaria [refers to the lip] - In China Jian Ye Yu Feng Hua
Flower Size .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, western Himalayas and Pakistanin forests at elevations around 900 to 3500 meters as a large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a fusiform tuber giving rise to a leafy stem with tubular, imbricate sheaths and carrying 6 to 8, distant, narrowly lanceolate-ensiform to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sessile leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, subdensely 7 to many flowered, glabrous, 2.4 to 8" [6 to 20- cm] long inflorescence with leafy, lanceolate, acuminate, 5 veined floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.
Many sources put this species together with H ensifolia, and H intermedia, but they are all quite different. H ensifolia is a much more robust and taller plant as well as much more common and H intermedia has a much longer spur and longer and more segments to the lip as well as being much more common. H pectinata is fairly rare and seldom encountered.
This species is within a group of similar orchids consisiting of H intermedia, H arietina, H davidii, H ensifolia, H limprichtii, H triquetra, and H mairei which all have trilobed lips with the two lateral sides with fringe.
SynonymsHabenaria gerardiana Lindl. 1832; Kryptostoma pectinatum (D.Don) Olszewski & Szlach. 2000; Ochyrorchis pectinata (D.Don) Szlach. 2004; *Orchis pectinata Sm.1806
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Exot. Bot. 2: 77 Sm 1806 as Orchis pectinata nom. illeg.
* Prodr. Fl. Nepal.: 24 D Don 1825
The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1: 310 King & Pantling 1898
The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1: Pl 406 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide;
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II: 178 Duthie 1906
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II: 130 Duthie 1906 drawing fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;
Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984;
Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide;
Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991;
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 37: 299 Olszewski & Szlach. 2000 as Kryptostoma pectinatum
Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001;
Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
Richardiana 4: 55 Szlach 2004 as Ochyrorchis pectinata
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok;
LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 photo fide;
A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 drawing/photo fide;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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