Habenaria polyodon Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl Drawing © by Joseph
Drawing © by Pradhan
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Common Name The Many Toothed Habenaria
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in southern India in the Nilgiri Hills at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an oblong tuber giving rise to an erect, short, stout leafy stem carrying 3 to 7, ovate-lanceolate, acute-acuminate, basally clasping leaves abruptly grading to bracts above that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, to 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, cymbiform, lower one langer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers
Synonyms Habenaria fimbriata Wight 1851
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgris Joseph 1987 drawing fide;
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