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Habenaria diceras is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1912. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Habenaria aitchisonii.
ORIGIN: Found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, western Himalayas, Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas and Nepal in open forests on sandstone at elevations of 3000 to 3950 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with cylindric tubers giving rise to 2, basal, adpressed to the ground, subopposite, orbicular to broadly ovate, acute, sessile, thick, softly glandular-pubescent leaves with adpressed, lanceolate, acute stem bracts above that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, subsecund, subdensely many flowered, 1.4 to 8 [3.5 to 20 cm] long, inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying erect, adpressed to the rachis, fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 to 0.28 inches [5 to 7 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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