Habenaria spatulifolia C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893 Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade

Common Name The Spatula Shaped Leaf Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide

Found in Myanmar as a small sized terrestrial with obovate-spatula-shaped2 to 5, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, slender, 4" [10 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with large, broadly cymbiform, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;

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