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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Habenaria |
| Species: | H. medusa |
| Binomial name | |
| Habenaria medusa | |
| Synonyms | |
Habenaria medusa is a species of orchid endemic to Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Borneo. [1]
Bulbophyllum medusae, commonly known as the Medusa orchid, is a species of epiphytic orchid with a creeping rhizome and a single leaf about 100 mm (3.9 in) long emerging from the top of each pseudobulb. The flowers are creamy yellow and arranged in clusters of about fifteen arranged in a circle at the tip of the flowering stem. The flowers have an unpleasant odour. The flowers have thread-like lateral sepals about 120 mm (4.7 in) long, giving each cluster the appearance of Medusa.
Habenaria, commonly called rein orchids or bog orchids, is a widely distributed genus of orchids in the tribe Orchideae. About 880 species of Habenaria have been formally described. They are native to every continent except Antarctica, growing in both tropical and subtropical zones.
The genus Platanthera belongs to the subfamily Orchidoideae of the family Orchidaceae, and comprises about 100 species of orchids. The members of this genus, known as the butterfly orchids or fringed orchids, were previously included in the genus Orchis, which is a close relative. They are distributed throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are terrestrial and have tubercules.
Habenaria thomana is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and São Tomé Island. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin was a botanist associated with the Natural History Museum (BM).
Habenaria dentata is a species of orchid native to the Himalaya, China, India, Indochina, Thailand and Myanmar. It is also found at Phalee. 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. It generally blooms in August- September.
Pecteilis radiata (syn. Habenaria radiata) is a species of orchid found in China, Japan, Korea and Russia. It is commonly known as the white egret flower, fringed orchid or sagisō. It is not to be confused with the white fringed orchid Platanthera praeclara, which is a North American species. The Sagiso is the official flower of Setagaya ward, Tokyo.
Habenaria rhodocheila is a species of orchid that occurs from South China to peninsular Malaysia and the Philippines.
Didymoplexiella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 8 known species native to Southeast Asia, with a few species extending northwards into Japan and southern China. These are mycoheterotropic plants lacking chlorophyll, obtaining nutrients from fungi in the soil.
Habenaria repens, commonly called the water-spider bog orchid or the floating orchid, is an orchid species widespread across Latin America from Mexico and the West Indies south to Argentina, as well as in the Southeastern United States from Texas and Oklahoma east to Florida and the Carolinas plus an isolated population in Virginia.
Habenariol is a phenolic compound found in the semi-aquatic orchid Habenaria repens. It acts as a feeding deterrent against the freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii.
Habenaria floribunda is a species of orchid widespread across much of Latin America, the West Indies and Florida.
Habenaria quinqueseta, the longhorn bog orchid, is a species of orchid closely related to H. macroceratitis and often mistaken for it.
Habenaria distans, the hammock bog orchid, is a species of orchid. It is native to Latin America from Mexico to Argentina, as well as Florida, the Greater Antilles, and the Galápagos.
Habenaria macroceratitis, the big-horn bog orchid or long-horned false rein orchid, is a species of orchid closely related to H. quinqueseta and often mistaken for it. Habenaria macroceratitis is native to Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, northern South America, and Florida.
Senghasiella is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Senghasiella glaucifolia, endemic to southwestern China.
Habenaria crinifera is a species of orchid found in Asia. It is known as Narilatha in Sinhala and Doll Orchid in English. These orchids, which bloom in whole groups in late rains, are tuberous orchids with both epiphytic and terrestrial habitats. Flowers are white with smooth edged petals. The lip white, 3 times as long as sepals, with a long claw, 3-lobed with side lobes somewhat wedge shaped, having the outer margins toothed and with a slender tail as long as itself produced from the inner margin. The midlobe is clawed, cleft into 2 lance shaped long tailed segments as long as side lobes. Spur is slender and incurved.
Habenaria suaveolens is a species of orchid that is native to western India.
Habenaria tridactylites is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to the Canary Islands. It was first described by John Lindley in 1835.
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