Kuhlhasseltia whiteheadii (Rendle) Ames 1915
Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Collection sheet by © Ames and The Foter Website
EARLY 
Common Name Whitehead's Kuhlhasseltia [American Botanist in the Philippines 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in the Philippines in mossy forests at elevations of 1400 to 2000 meters as a cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect to ascending, basally leafy stem carrying 5 to 7, ovate-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a terminal, erect, hairy, with 5 dry, membraneous, lanceolate bracts and a racemose, crowded, short, few to several flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Haemaria merrillii Ames 1907; Kuhlhasseltia merrillii (Ames) Schltr. 1911; *Zeuxine whiteheadii Rendle 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 3 Ames 1908 as Haemaria merrillii drawing fide; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1986; Kew Bulletin Vol 41 #4:811 Notes on Asiatic and New Guinea Orchidaceae J J Wood 1986
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