There are lot of confusion between this partcular group of Habenaria. Earlier Habenaria foliosa var. gibsonii and Habenaria foliosa var. foliosa were two varieties. But then Habenaria gibsoni was formed from the former which had two varieties, Habenaria gibsonii var. gibsonii and Habenaria gibsonii var. foetida. I find Habenaria foliosa; Habenaria gibsonii var. gibsonii and Habenaria gibsonii var. foetida as three distinct taxa, but Kew has merged all of them under Habenaria foliosa. The main difference between gibsonii and foliosa lies in the length of the two lobes of bipartite lateral petal, where as the prominent difference in H. g. var. gibsonii and H. g. var. foetida is that of smell. Foetida smells like :p shit, whereas former has no or better smell!! Other few species allied to above taxa are Habenaria digitata and Habenaria pangrahiana. Regards Pankaj
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Mayur Nandikar <[email protected]> wrote: > hello, > Should anyone know about the other varieties of Habenaria foliosa? > > > On 8/9/10, ajinkya gadave <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> wow !!!!!!!!! >> great flowers >> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Ushaprabha ji >>> Great to see this wonderful orchid. New to me. >>> I think you will have to reduce the size of the image to 150K before >>> sending it to the group next time as per posting guidelines. >>> Any way thanks for sharing this wonderful specimen >>> Dr Satish Phadke >>> >>> On 9 August 2010 16:20, ushaprabha page <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Habenaria foliosa- found on the private land near village `Thoran >>>> on the way between Kamshet to Jambhivali. >>> >>> > > > > -- > Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, > Research Student, > Department of Botany, > Shivaji University, > Kolhapur.
