Habenaria dentata

Habenaria dentata is a species of orchid native to the Himalaya, China, India, Indochina, Thailand and Myanmar. It is also found at Phalee.[1] The whole plant is about 35 to 80 cm in height. It has a smooth round tuber that give rise to a single plant. Lower part of stem sheathed, middle leafy and upper part bracteate. Leaves 4 to 6 cm long, oblong to elliptic, 5 nerved, sometimes 7 also, the base of the leaf narrowed into a long tubular sheath. Spike 4 to 8 cm long, laxly flowered. Sepals sub-equal, broadly ovate, acute, spreading, the lateral pair sub-erect. Petals narrowly oblong, sub-acute, curved inwards, shorter than the sepals. Lip as long as the sepals, variable in breadth, with large cuneate or rounded, fimbriate or crenate side lobes and a small oblong entire apical lobe. Spur infundibuliform at the base, slender laterally compressed, geniculte, sub-clavate below the knee, longer than the shortly stalked beaked ovary. Stigmas separated by the area in the centre by the orifice of the spur.[2] It generally blooms in August- September.[3]

Habenaria dentata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Habenaria
Species:
H. dentata
Binomial name
Habenaria dentata
Synonyms

See text

Synonyms

Orchis dentata Sw. is the basionym. Other synonyms include:

  • Habenaria dentata f. ecalcarata (King & Pantl.) Tuyama
  • Habenaria dentata ssp. ecalcarata (King & Pantl.) Panigrahi & Murti
  • Habenaria dentata var. ecalcarata (King & Pantl.) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Habenaria dentata var. parageniculata (Tang & F.T. Wang) Aver.
  • Habenaria dentata var. tohoensis (Hayata) S.S. Ying
  • Habenaria finetiana Schltr.
  • Habenaria geniculata D.Don
  • Habenaria geniculata var. ecalcarata King & Pantl.
  • Habenaria miersiana Champ. ex Benth.
  • Habenaria miersiana var. yunnanensis Finet
  • Habenaria parageniculata Tang & F.T. Wang
  • Habenaria sieboldiana Miq.
  • Habenaria tienensis Tang & F.T. Wang
  • Habenaria tohoensis Hayata
  • Orchis geniculata Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don
  • Plantaginorchis dentata (Sw.) Szlach.
  • Plantaginorchis finetiana (Schltr.) Szlach.
  • Platanthera dentata (Sw.) Lindl.
  • Platanthera geniculata (D. Don) Lindl. ex Wall.

References
  1. "Habenaria dentata (Sw.) Schltr". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  2. "Habenaria dentata var. dentata. | Naresh Swami | The Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya | Memoirs of an orchid hunter". Retrieved 2020-03-04.


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