Plant and Flowers in situ India

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Drawing

Drawing © by M.D.Dassanayake & F.R.Fosberg and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Spiral Peristylus

Flower Size

Found in southwestern India and Sri Lanka as a medium sized terrestrial that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, 2.5" [6.25 cm] long rachis, laxly several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Habenaria torta Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018

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