Habenaria yueana Tang & F.T.Wang 1936 SECTION Macroceratitis
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Common Name Yu's Habenaria - in China chuan dian yu feng hua
Flower Size
Found in western Sichuan and southern Yunnan province of China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 1800 to 2600 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an oblong, fleshy tuber giving rise to an erect, terete, stout stem carrying 5 to 6, laxly arranged, ovate to ovte-elliptic, amplexical basally, acute apically leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, 7 to 9 flowered inflorescence with elliptic-ovate, longer than ovary, acuminate floral bracts with a twisted, cylindric-fusiform, ovary and carrying greenish, large flowers.
This species is within a group of similar orchids consisiting of H davidii, H arietina, H intermedia, H limprichtii, H yueana, H mairei and H pectinata which all have trilobed lips with the two lateral sides with fringe.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 7: 135 Tang & F T Wang 1936;
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