Habenaria viridiflora (Rottler ex Sw.) Lindl. 1835 SECTION Commelynifoliae Kraenzl 1893
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Common Name The Green Flowered Habenaria - In China Lu Hua Yu Feng Hua
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, southern China, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in damp grassy areas in forests in low countryas a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with oblong, fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, slender, rigid, glabrous stem carrying 4 to 5, linear, acuminate to acute apically, amplexicaul base leaves grading above into 1 to 7, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, serrate margined bract-like leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, glabrous, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, serveral to more than 10 flowered inflorescence with a 3.4 to 9.6" [8.5 to 24 cm] long rachis carrying ovate-lanceolate, much shorter than the ovary, long acuminate apically floral bracts.
Synonyms Coeloglossum luteum Dalzell 1850; Habenaria chlorantha Turcz. 1854; Habenaria graminea A.Rich. 1841; Habenaria tenuis Griff. 1844; *Orchis viridiflora Rottler ex Sw 1800
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 206 Rottler ex Sw. 1800 as Orchis viridiflora;
* Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 691 R Br ex Spreng 1826
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 15: 72 A Rich. 1841 as H graminea nom. illeg.
Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. 4: 379 Griff. 1844 as H tenuis
Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 263 Dalzell 1850 as Coeloglossum luteum
Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 27(II): 86 Turcz. 1854 as H chlorantha
Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934;
Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 drawing ok;
Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle % No 71 Seidenfaden 1972 drawing good;
Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976;
Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Neottinae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide;
A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide;
Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;
A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand 2 Vaddhanaphuti 2009 photo hmm;
Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok;
Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing good/photo ok;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 ;
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018
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