Habenaria furcifera Lindl.
In Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 319 (1835)
Synonyms
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Habenaria modesta Dalzell
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Habenaria ovalifolia Wight
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Habenaria tenuicornis Wall. ex Hook.f.
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Pecteilis furcifera (Lindl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
Ecology: Terrestrial herb growing in dense undergrowth on humus rich soil in ever green forest
Tubers 1or 2, ovate ellipsoid, 3x1.5cm
Leaves: 13-17x3-6cm, oblanceolate or elliptical, acute or sub acuminate, clustered at the base of the stem passing into bracts of the scape
Inflorescence: 25-40cm, long, stout, erect, many flowered, scape bracteate glabrous, sometimes longitudinally grooved
Bract lanceolate, acuminate, lowermost bracts larger6-7x3-6cm while other are smaller 2x0.8cm
Flowers small green, very shortly pedicellate, bracteate, pedicel 1-1.5mm long,
Floral bracts 1.3x0,3cm, ovate-lanceolate acuminate, slightly concave at the base, about as long as ovary, margins minutely papillate
Sepals: subequal, yellowish green, 3nerved
Dorsal sepal 6x3-4mm ovate- elliptic, concave entire cuneate
Lateral sepals 4.5-5x 3mm spreading, somewhat falcate, acuminate, somewhat concave at the base, sparsely gland dotted
Petals:4x2.5mm broadly oblong obtuse
Labellum 3 lobed, right angles to the base, mid lobe 7x2mm, lateral segments
8-9x1.5mm diverging, filiform, much longer than stout, blunt entire mid lobe,
Spur 12x 1.5-2mm, longer than ovary slender, involute at the base, dark green at the apex
Column: 2x2mm, Anther cells rather short,
Pollinia ovoid slightly curved slender caudicle & narrowly oblong viscidium Staminodes 2 broadly oblong, white glandular placed on either side of column below anther cell.Stigmatic processes elliptic blunt one on either side of entrance of spur
Rostellum thickened horny rim just above orfice of spur from which small ligulated processes are give out which forms flap on entrance of spur
Capsule 1.5x0.5cm, fusiform turgid, beaked, strongly ribbed, decurved, beak one fourth length of capsule
Flowering: October
Fruiting: November