Robert Wight

A catalogue of Edinburgh type specimens associated with Wight drawings

Habenaria travancorica Hook. f.

Family: Orchidaceae

Original name: Habenaria lindleyana Wight

Place of publication: Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 3(2): 11, t. 922, 1844-5

Type status: ?isotype

RBGE Barcode No.(s): E00179161

Wight year No.: [1837].3064

Collecting locality: Pulney Mountains Collecting date: Sep 1836

Collector: [Wight]

RBGE collection name: ?Glasgow, 1903

Notes: H. lindleyana is an illegit homonym, non Steud., 1840; this is also the type of Hooker's H. travancorica