Habenaria marginataColebr.

Golden yellow Habenaria

WFO wfo-0000978110 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Habenaria marginata, photographed by Ramesh Shenai Jr.
fig. a Ramesh Shenai Jr., CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-11 / obs. 171054339
Habenaria marginata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162370364
Habenaria marginata, photographed by S.MORE
fig. c S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 81003306
Habenaria marginata, photographed by S.MORE
fig. d S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 57355105
Habenaria marginata, photographed by S.MORE
fig. e S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 108327702
Habenaria marginata, photographed by S.MORE
fig. f S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 57492834
Habenaria marginata, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45389970
Habenaria marginata, photographed by Ramesh Shenai Jr.
fig. h Ramesh Shenai Jr., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173848366

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Habenaria marginata is native: China South-Central, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, West Himalaya China South-CentralBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaMyanmarNepalPakistanThailandWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Habenaria marginata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Thailand THA
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Habenaria aurantiaca Rolfe ex Downie
  • Habenaria flavescens Hook.f.
  • Habenaria fusifera Hook.f.
  • Habenaria marginata var. flavescens (Hook.f.) T.Cooke
  • Habenaria promensis Lindl.
  • Orchis clavata B.Heyne ex Hook.f.
  • Pecteilis marginata (Colebr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
  • Platanthera marginata Lindl. ex Wall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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