1,913
edits
Changes
no edit summary
{{SPlantbox
{{SPlantbox
|botanic_name=Habenaria
|familia=Orchidaceae
|genus=Habenaria
|common_name=bog orchids
|common_name=bog orchids
|habit=orchid
|habit=orchid
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
|image_caption=Habenaria rhodocheila
|image_caption=Habenaria rhodocheila
}}
}}
''Habenaria'' species have small to large underground [[root]] [[tuber]]s and erect stems 20 to 80 cm in length. Leaves are [[lanceolate]] or [[ovate]], and are borne either along the stem (cauline) or only at the base (basal). When basal, leaves lie flat on the ground. Flowers are mostly green, white, yellow and green, or white and green, but a few exceptions have brilliant red flowers. The plant is a perennial [[deciduous]], with the entire above-ground part of the plant dying back each year.
''Habenaria'' species have small to large underground [[root]] [[tuber]]s and erect stems 20 to 80 cm in length. Leaves are [[lanceolate]] or [[ovate]], and are borne either along the stem (cauline) or only at the base (basal). When basal, leaves lie flat on the ground. Flowers are mostly green, white, yellow and green, or white and green, but a few exceptions have brilliant red flowers. The plant is a perennial [[deciduous]], with the entire above-ground part of the plant dying back each year.
Virescens, 26.
Virescens, 26.
Viridis, 24.
Viridis, 24.
H. geniculata, D. Don. Slender-growing: fls. white with green spur. Burma, Himalayas. —H. idntha, Hook. (Platanthera iantha, Wight). Deciduous, about 16 in. high: fls. shortly stalked, creamy white; lip large, rose-purple and white with crimson-purple doU and streaks; crest bright yellow. S. India. G.C. III. 54:300.—H. lugardii, Rolfe. Lvs. 2, basal: raceme . many-fld.: fls. white, the sty- lodes green: sepals ovate, acute; petals divided into 2 slender lobes. Bechuanaland. B. M. 7798. — H. Rttnieri. Garden hybrid of H. militaris and H. carnea.—H. roebelenii. Rolfe. Similar to H. militaris but dwarfer: fls. vermilion - scarlet; lip broad, deeply cleft at the aides. Annam. O.K. 1913:39.—H. triquttra, Rolfe. Plant somewhat glaucous: racemes about 10-fld.; petals white; sepals light green. Burma.
T. H. Kearney, Jr.
George V. Nash
}}
}}