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Orchid Species: Habenaria lindleyana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria lindleyana is an orchid species identified by Steud. in 1840.
ORIGIN: Found in [some cite Malaysia] Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in seasonal evergreen, deciduous, pine and bamboo forests at elevations of 10 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial needing a dry winter rest with a rosette of 3 to 6, basal, ovate, acute to acuminate, mucronate leaves grading above into 4 to 12, spreading to erect, lanceolate, acute to acuminate sterile bracts that blooms in the late summer and fall on a terminal, erect, glabrous, 6 to 20 [15 to 50 cm] long, semi dense to lax, 2 to 25 flowered inflorescence with a 2 to 6 [5 to 15 cm] long rachis carrying lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and has successive opening flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/4 inch [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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