Habenaria thailandica Seidenf. 1977 SECTION Habenaria
Photo by © Tripetch P. and The Trekking Thai Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Seidenfaden
LATER 
EARLY 
Common Name The Thai Habenaria
Flower Size .2” [5 mm]
Found in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in dry deciduous forests at elevations around 20 to 645 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with erect stems carrrying to 12, cauline, scattered around the middle of the stem or all along it, broadly elliptic to lanceolate, acute, mucronate, pale green to silvery beneath leaves without sterile bracts that blooms in the later spring through early summer on an erect, terminal, glabrous, 17.6” to 20” [44 to 50 cm] long, lax, many flowered inflorescence with a 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long rachis carrying lanceolate, acute floral bracts.
Synonyms Habenaria foliosa var. foetida (Blatt. & McCann) Bennet 1984 ; Habenaria gibsonii var. foetida Blatt. & McCann 1932
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 36: 16 Blatt. & McCann 1932 as H gibsonii var. foetida
*Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 5: 452 Bennet 1984 as H foliosa var. foetida
Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide
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