Habenaria xanthantha F.Muell. 1869
Drawing by © Lewis Roberts and Wikimedia Website
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Common Name The Yellow Habenaria - In Australia - The Freak Rein Orchid
Flower Size 1/4" [6 to 8mm]
Found in northern and northeastern Queensland Australia at elevations of sea level to 200 meters in moist to wet melaleuca woodlands and shrubby forests as a medium to large sized, hot growing terrestrial with a clavate-ovate tuber giving rise to 2 to 3 basal, erect, lanceolate, widely linear, channeled, grass-like leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, 6 to 14" [15 to 35 cm] long, 8 to 20 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Habenaria anomala Dockrill 1965; Pecteilis dockrillii D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2019; Pecteilis xanthantha (F.Muell.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchadian 1: 150 Dockrill 1965 as H anomala nom. illeg.
Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 51 D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem 2018 as Pecteilis xanthantha
Austral. Orchid Rev. 84(1): 19 2019 as Pecteilis dockrillii
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