Habenaria rostellifera Rchb.f. 1878
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Common Name The Rosy Habenaria - In China Chi Pian Po Shen - In Thailand Ya man pu
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in central Guizhou and Yunnan provinces of China, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam along rice paddies or in abandoned fields on grassy slopes, open areas of deciduous forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with 2 to 4, cauline, scattered in the lower half of the stem, oblong-oblanceolate, acute, mucronate, basally clasping leaves grading to above 5 to 11, suberect, lanceolate, acuminate, shortly hairy margined sterile bracts that blooms in the late spring through early fall on an erect, terminal, 6.2 to 20" " [16 to 50 cm] long, 5 to 17 flowered inflorescence with a to 2" [5 cm] long rachis carrying lanceolate, acuminate, shortly hairy margined floral bracts.
This species and H rostrata are quite similar but H rostellifera differs mostly in the longer stelida that are abruptly upcurved, in H rostrata the stelida are shorter and straight.
Synonyms Habenaria hancockii Rolfe 1896; Habenaria roseata Ridl. 1908
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 3 1969; Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle % No 71 Seidenfaden 1972 as H roseata; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as H roseata; 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; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide; Checklist of Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Saw and Chung 2017;
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