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Definition of Habenaria chlorantha
1. Noun. South European orchid with dark green flowers that are larger and less fragrant than Platanthera bifolia; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria.
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Platanthera, Platanthera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habenaria Chlorantha
Literary usage of Habenaria chlorantha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1903)
"Habenaria chlorantha (Longitudinal course of bundles). The three upper curved
outlines, two of which passing through the words " upper sepal," " upper petal ..."
2. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"There is an English orchid, Habenaria chlorantha, that closely resembles this orchid
... "Habenaria chlorantha depends for its fertilisation," says Darwin, ..."
3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1851)
"Habenaria chlorantha, Bab. "Dry pastures and heaths, sometimes in moist places,
frequent," ' British Flora.' Our plants do not answer to these localities; ..."
4. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"Habenaria chlorantha, Brit. Fl.—Platanthera chlorantha, Cvai.Lmd. Syn.Suppl. p.
330, who observes, " that its large greenish flowers mark it at first sight, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Caltha palustris, L.—Lyte's MS. Butterfly Orchis. A common modern book-name for
Habenaria chlorantha, Bab., and H. bifolia, Br. Butter Haws. ..."
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