Habenaria rumphii (Brongn.) Lindl. 1835 SECTION Acuiferae
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name Rumphi's Habenaria [Dutch Botanist 1800's in Java]
Flower Size .7" [1.7 cm]
Found in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Moluccas, Sumatra, Sulawesi, The Philippines, New Guinea and Queensland Australia in lowland grasslands at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with an oblong tuber carrying an erect, 3 to 4 leafed stem carrying erect, lanceolate-linear, narrowing towards the base, gradually acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, terminal, racemose, 9.6" to 12.8" [24 to 32 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with 3 to 6, lanceolate-linear to subulate, setaeceous-acuminate bracts and erect, subulate, setaceous-acuminate, concave, keeled, 1 nerved floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria dahliana Kraenzl. 1898; Habenaria holtzei F.Muell. 1890 publ. 1891; Habenaria rumphii var. meraukensis J.J.Sm. 1909; Habenaria stauroglossa Kraenzl. 1889; *Platanthera rumphii Brongn. 1834; Satyrium dahlianum (Kraenzl.) Kuntze 1903
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