118-TSP-ID-24NOV2016-2: A terrestrial Orchid @ Vatehalla for ID

[tsp kumar]

Dear friends,

 

Kindly examine and identify this terrestrial Orchid......Visited the locality, where only a few plants were growing,at least on five occassions spread over three months waiting for the buds to bloom. The buds failed to bloom..! Just fancied to open up myself to have a view of the floral parts..........Could this be a Habenaria sp....???

 

Habit:Herb

 

Habitat:Terrestrial,dry forest in open blanks with sandy soil

 

Sighting:Vatehalla,near Belur,Karnataka,about 800 msl

 

Date:02-09-2016,22-09-2016,17-10-2016,27-10-2016 and 03-11-2016

 

Thanks and regards

tspkumar

Deputy Conservator of Forests

Working Plan 

Chikmagalur

Ph:9880571585

 

 

 

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[J.M. Garg]

Beautiful images

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[tsp kumar]

Thanks Garg ji

regards

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

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[Pankaj Kumar]

Sorry I had limited internet and somehow i was unable to reply from my mobile.

I know what this is and I would really be happy if you could collect some flowers and take some good images of dissected flower. You can then write an article and i will help you even without authorship. May be you can write with Gurcharan sir

This plant has been so badly interpreted since a long time. I saw this plant during my PhD field work and I identified it as Habenaria pelarioides.

Some people named it as a new genus, Odisha cleistantha but I dont agree, then it got new name in Vietnam which I dont agree either.

Please put in some effort and we can resolve this.

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Pankaj ji.

[Pankaj Kumar]

spellings could be wrong.

[tsp kumar]

Thanks Pankaj for yor feedback. Unfortunately the bloom time is over now.One thing that I observed was that the flowers did not open up at all .They used to get dark within possibly due to insect pests.....Now that I know the location I will keep a watch

Regards

[tsp kumar]

Dear Pankaj ji

Uploading some more images of flowers that were manually opened.Hope these may help.

rega

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

Sorry I had limited internet and somehow i was unable to reply from my mobile. I know what this is and I would really be happy if you could collect some flowers and take some good images of dissected flower. You can then write an article and i will help you even without authorship. May be you can write with Gurcharan sir This plant has been so badly interpreted since a long time. I saw this plant during my PhD field work and I identified it as Habenaria pelarioides. Some people named it as a new genus, Odisha cleistantha but I dont agree, then it got new name in Vietnam which I dont agree either.

Please put in some effort and we can resolve this. -- ********************************************************************************************************************** Pankaj Kumar

Thanks Pankaj for yor feedback. Unfortunately the bloom time is over now.One thing that I observed was that the flowers did not open up at all .They used to get dark within possibly due to insect pests.....Now that I know the location I will keep a watch Regards

tsp kumar

[Pankaj Kumar]

Yes it is the same orchid, Habenaria pelorioides.

Thanks a lot for sharing and wish you all a very Happy Christmas,

Greetings from University of Oxford,

Pankaj

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:03 PM, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

Some earlier relevant feedback:

[tsp kumar]

Thanks Pankaj ji for the confirmation.

regards