Habenaria plurifoliata Tang & F.T.Wang 1940
Photo by © Li Jianwu
Drawing by © WuZhanghua and The Flora of China Website
Common Name The Many Leaved Habenaria - in China Lian zuo yu feng hua
Flower Size
Found in southern Yunnan and southern Guangxi provinces of China in forests along rivers at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with cylindric-oblong tubers giving rise to an erect, terete, stout stem with 1 to 2 tubular, basal sheaths and carrying 4 to 10, more or less in a rosette, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, contracted below intothe aplexicaul base leaves becoming bract-like above, that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 2.4 to 6.8" [6 to to 17 cm] long, 10 to 25 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, basal ones nearly as long as the ovary, acuminate floral bracts and carrying yellowish green to white flowers.
Synonyms Pecteilis plurifoliata (Tang & F.T.Wang) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 10: 40 Tang & Wang 1940
Flora of China Vol 25: 147 Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25: 212 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 53 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis plurifoliata
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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