Habenaria heyneana Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.

Habenaria heyneana Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. View in CoL 320. 1835. Type: India Orientalis, Wall. Cat. 7044, Herb. Heyne (K [K000061927!]).

A terrestrial orchid, endemic to India , can be recognized in the field by scattered leaves throughout the stem, entire petals, narrowly oblong lip lobes, and lateral lobes shorter than the mid-lobe. Hitherto, the species is endemic to peninsular India , but there is a collection ‘ T. Lobb 10 ’ from Meghalaya at K (K000061924), which extends the occurrence of Habenaria heyneana in Northeast India , which is quite disjunct and therefore deserves more detailed study.

Three sheets and a line drawing are housed at K. The sheet K000061925 has multiple specimens pasted on it, with the top middle two specimens labelled by Stocks as ‘78’. Herb. J.E. Stocks S. Concan Dalzell’. Another sheet (not yet digitized) at K, also has three specimens, the right two specimens labelled by Dalzell, and a label in Stocks’ hand ‘Orchideae no.11’. The sheet with barcode K000247458 has seven specimens with the label ‘ Habenaria candida ’ in Dalzell’s hand and Hooker’s annotation as ‘ Bombay Dalzell’, which is chosen here as the lectotype .

10. Habenaria caranjensis Dalzell View in CoL , Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 262. 1850. Neotype (designated by Ormerod & Kumar, 2018): INDIA , Maharashtra, Dronagheree, 07.1848, Dalzell s.n. (K [K000387524!]).