Long-tailed Habenaria

[Neil Soares]

Hi,  At my farm today. The Long-tailed Habenaria [Habenaria commelinifolia] has just started to flower.                     Regards,                      Neil Soares.

[Prashant awale]

Excellent Photographs. Thanks Neil ji for showing this beauty from your Farm.
regards
Prashant

[Pankaj Kumar]

This is cool....Habenaria commelinifolia....this is not Long tailed Habenaria, this is COMMELINA LEAVED HABENARIA.

Long tailed Habenaria should be HABENARIA LONGICORNICULATA (LONGI means LONG, CONRU means tail)..

Thanks a lot for sharing.

Regards

Pankaj

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[Neil Soares]

Hi Dr.Pankaj,   Fair enough. Thanks.                Regards,                 Neil Soares.  --- On Sun, 9/5/10, Pankaj Kumar <sahani...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Pankaj Kumar]

Thats Habenaria longicorniculata with around 15 cm long spur.

Regards

[tanay bose]

Lovely plant looks really beautiful

Tanay

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[Tabish]

Pankaj boss, Sorry for putting too fine a point on it, but cornu means
horn. And when culata is added at the end, it generally means short -
e.g. calyculata means short calyx. Now adding a "longi" before
corniculata is weird! Must have an interesting explanation. However,
with such a long tail, Long-Tailed Habenaria is a natural name for
Habenaria longicorniculata.
- Tabish

On Sep 5, 10:26 pm, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats Habenaria longicorniculata with around 15 cm long spur.
> Regards
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dr.Pankaj,
> >   Fair enough. Thanks.
> >                Regards,
> >                 Neil Soares.
>

> > --- On *Sun, 9/5/10, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>* wrote:

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> > From: Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:46608] Long-tailed Habenaria
> > To: "Prashant awale" <pkaw...@gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Neil Soares" <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com>, indian...@googlegroups.com
> > Date: Sunday, September 5, 2010, 10:38 PM
>
> > This is cool....Habenaria commelinifolia....this is not Long tailed
> > Habenaria, this is COMMELINA LEAVED HABENARIA.
> > Long tailed Habenaria should be HABENARIA LONGICORNICULATA (LONGI means
> > LONG, CONRU means tail)..
> > Thanks a lot for sharing.
> > Regards
> > Pankaj
>

> > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Prashant awale <pkaw...@gmail.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pkaw...@gmail.com>

> > > wrote:
>
> > Excellent Photographs. Thanks Neil ji for showing this beauty from your
> > Farm.
> > regards
> > Prashant
>

> > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=drneilsoa...@yahoo.com>

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[Pankaj Kumar]

Tabish Sir,

"longi" means "long"; "cornu" does mean "horn" but it also means
"spur" which is often called as tail in Orchids; "culata" or "culatus"
means "at the end". So the word, "longicorniculatus", means "long spur
at the end"....

"calyculata" doesnt mean "short calyx", it means "provided with
calyculus", and "calyculus" means "epicalyx".

:).

Pankaj

[Tabish]

Fair enough boss! :-)
- Tabish

[Shantanu]

nice explanation Pankaj ji....
there are lots of things to learn in this group. :)

Shantanu.

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