Habenaria khasiana - Khasi Habenaria

Khasi Habenaria a miniature to small sized, terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying 3 to 5, basal, grass-like, erect, linear-oblong, pointed, leaves. They grade above into erect, lanceshaped, tapering sterile bracts. The plant blooms in the summer on an erect, branch-ends, hairless, 7-30 cm long, lax, 3-10 flowered inflorescence with a 2-10 cm long, axis, carrying lanceshaped, long-pointed, less than half as long as the ovary floral bracts. Flowers are 1-1.5 cm in diameter (excluding the lip side lobes), green or greenish-yellow, lip sometimes brownish-yellow. Sepals are blunt to somewhat pointed; dorsal sepal erect, elliptic, 3-6 by 2.2-4.5 mm; lateral sepals spreading, ovate, 3.5-7 by 1.7-2.2 mm, united with the base of the petals and the lip. Petals are cohering with the dorsal sepal, narrowly triangular, somewhat pointed, 3.8-8 by 1-1.8 mm. Lip is 6-9 mm long, 3-lobed from the base, lobes thread-like; midlobe 4.9 mm long; side lobes 1.1-3.5 cm long. Spur is cylindric, 6-15 mm long, sometimes club-shaped towards tip. Ovary (including flower-stalk) is 7-11.5 mm long. Khasi Habenaria is found in NE India, Cambodia, Laos, New Guinea, Thailand, Vietnam, at altitudes up to about 1300 m. Flowering: July-September.