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Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-11
Page range: 190–195
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Habenaria luquanensis (Orchidaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Habenaria delavayi Habenaria finetiana IUCN Red List Ochid Yunnan Province Moncots

Abstract

Habenaria luquanensis from Yunnan Province is described and illustrated. This new species most closely resembles H. delavayi in having a basal leaf rosette, flowers with a concave and abaxially keeled dorsal sepal and linear petals. It is distinguished by herbaceous, loosely arranged rosette leaves (versus tightly adpressed to each other), a lip which is 3-lobed only to 1/3–1/4 from the base and has narrowly oblong lateral lobes (versus deeply 3-lobed nearly to the base with linear-cuneate lateral lobes). Another similar species is H. finetiana, but this species can be distinguished by its cauline leaves, longer floral bracts, petals forming a hood with the dorsal sepal, a lip which is 3-lobed only in the upper half and  rhombic, serrate lateral lobes, a spur which is nearly as long as the ovary, and central rostellum lobe not clearly visible.