Photo by © Lanfu Wang and The Native Orchids Website

Inflorescence

Photo by © Leonid Averyanov and Han Loa Vietnam Website

Drawing

Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name Peteloti's Habenaria - In China Lie Ban Yu Feng Hua

Flower Size 1.2 to 1.32" [3 to 3.3 cm]

Found in south China, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam in forests along valleys at elevations of 300 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial with oblong, fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, terete to stout, stem carrying 5 to 6, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate apically contracted below into the amplexicaul sheathing base leaves and with many bract-like leaves above that blooms in the spring, summer and early fall on an erect, 4 to 13.2" [10 to 33 cm] long, laxly 5 to 12 flowered inflorescence.

Kew adds Habenaria hosokawae Fukuy 1934 as a synonym of this species but If I have the 2 determinations correct then they are 2 separate species.

Synonyms Habenaria pseudodenticulata Hand.-Mazz. 1936

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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