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Orchid Species: Habenaria tonkinensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria tonkinensis is an orchid species identified by Seidenf. in 1977.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Guangxi and southern Yunnan China, Laos and northern Vietnam in broad-leaves forests at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with oblong tubers giving rise to an erect, terete, stout, glabrous stem carrying 10 to 13, clustered towards the base, linear to linear-lanceolate, contracted basally, acuminate to acute apically, grading above into 5 to 13, bract-like leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, [11 to 21 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate floral bracts carrying white, fragrant flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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