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Orchid Species: Habenaria delavayi
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria delavayi is an orchid species identified by Finet in 1902.
ORIGIN: Found in the south central China in forests, shady areas of grassy forests and shrubby grasslands at elevations of 1500 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with oblong to ovoid, fleshy tubers giving rise to an erect, terete glabrous stem with 1 to 2 basal, tubular sheaths and carrying 3 to rarely 4+, dense basal rosette, orbicular to ovate, slightly fleshy, obtuse to acute apically, obtuse rounded and abruptly narrowing into the amplexicaule base leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, 2.4 to 6 [6 to 15 cm] long, loosely 7 to 20 flowered, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, half the length of the ovary, arisitate apically floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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