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Published In: Flora Simlensis 504, f. 166. 1907. (Flora Simlensis) Name publication detail
 

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Contributor Text: J. RENZ
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: July-August.
Type: Type: Described from Simla, Collett.
Distribution: Distribution: Throughout N. W. Himalaya from Swat to Garhwal-Kumaon & Nepal. On grassy pastures, up to 3000 m, often with Satyrium nepalense.
Comment/Acknowledgements: It differs from Habenaria latilabris in having a dense inflorescence, bright yellow hooded petals and a labellum with a distinct gibbosity on the flexion between the basal claw and the anterior section.
Map Location: B-7 Swat: Pashtora, c. 1200 m, E. Nasir & Zaffar Ali 5530 (RAW); Mt. Illam, 2100-2200 m, R. R. Stewart 24365 (RAW); Malam Jabba, 2600 m, P. M. Kikk s.n. (K). Hazara: above Daddar, 1500 m, Y. & I. Nasir 6160, 7746 (RAW); Thandiani, 2400 m, R. R. Stewart 27769 (G); Nonari, Inayat 23168 (G, DD); Hazara, Abdul Latif. s.n. (RAW); Muzaffarabad: Loon Bangla, R. R. Stewart & E. Nasir s.n. (RAW); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Upper Topa, Murree, 2100 m, R. R. Stewart 3985 (RAW); Murree, 1876, E. T. Aitchison s.n. (K); id., E. Saunders s.n. (K).

 

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Plants up to 50(-75) cm, with rather small, ± sessile tuberoids. Stem leafy, somewhat flexuous. Leaves (2-)3-4, sheathing, the second largest, to 6-10 x 4.5 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescence cylindrical, up to 20(-25) cm long, 3 cm broad, dense. Bracts lanceolate, ± equalling the ovary in length. Flowers yellow and green, deflexed in bud. Sepals green, margins ciliolate, the dorsal broader than long, broadly ovate 3-4 x 4-5 mm, the lateral sepals somewhat larger, oblong, 5-6 mm long, ± deflexed; petals bright yellow, sometimes greenish-yellow, thick, obliquely triangular from c. 4 mm broad base, 5(-6) mm long, curved inwards and forming a hood with dorsal sepal. Labellum entire, 7-9 mm long, strap-shaped, bright yellow, its base forming a 1-1.5 mm broad, slightly chanelled claw, the anterior portion ± abruptly deflexed, 5-6 mm long, c.l mm broad, on the flexion with a distinct transverse gibbosity. Spur longer than ovary, to 1.5-2.5 cm, spreading and directed upwards, usually hooked downwards towards the tip. Column 2-3 mm, anther canals short, stigmatic processes short, oblong. Ovary twisted, glabrous.
 
 
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