Habenaria carnea photo C. Solimbergo |
(Habenaria claviformis) |
taxonomy | described by | Brown, Nicholas Edward |
published in | The Gardeners' Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 2 : 729 , f . 105 . 1891 | |
Family | Orchdaceae | |
Subfamily | Orchidoideae | |
Tribe | Orchideae | |
Subtribe | Orchidinae | |
Genus | Habenaria Willdenow 1805 | |
metabolism | C3 pathway, stomata of the leaves are open during the day. | |
(K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
native of | origin | evergreen forest, on limestone hills, in Thailand, Malaysia |
altitude | 100 - 200 m (330 - 660 ft) | |
habitat | climate informations from Songkhla (Songkhla, Thailand) | |
Köppen climate classification : Am, tropical monsoon climate (a dry season and a wet season very rainy) | ||
the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 150 m / 495 ft ) : | ||
photoperiod | in Songkhla this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 28 m' to 11 h 32 m' | |
life form | geophyte, rarely epiphyte | |
brightness | sunny | |
inflorescence | lenght | 20 - 25 cm (8" - 10") |
flores | 7 - 9 | |
size | single flower 4 L 3 cm (1.6 L 1.2") - spur 5 cm (2") inflor. 16 L 11 cm (6.4" L 4,4") | |
duration | inflorescence ≈ 30 days | |
time | to bloom from birth ≈ 70 days | |
CITES | appendix | II |