Peristylus ponerostachys (Rchb.f.) Ormerod 2013 Drawing by © Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Wretched? Inflorescence Habenaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Leyte and Mindanao islands of the Philippines at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a terete stem carrying 3 to 4, elliptic, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 4 to 5.8" [10 to 14.5 cm] long, 6.8 to 12.8" [17 to 32 cm] long overall, rachis sublaxly few to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying greenish to greenish white flowers.

Synonyms *Habenaria ponerostachys Rchb.f. 1855; Habenaria ramosa R.S.Rogers & C.T.White 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol V Ames 1915 as Habenaria ponerostachys; Orchidiana Philippiniana vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Habenaria ponerstachys; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 11 2013 Omerod drawing good;

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