Herminium fallax (Lindl.) Hook.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 151

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scientific name	Herminium fallax (Lindl.) Hook.
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Herminium fallax (Lindl.) Hook. View in CoL f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 129, 1890

Basionym: Peristylus fallax Lindl. View in CoL , Gen . Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 298, 1835.

Homotypic synonyms: Habenaria fallax (Lindl.) King & Pantl., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) View in CoL 8: 325, 1898. Platanthera fallax (Lindl.) Schltr., Repert. View in CoL Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 4: 111, 1919.

Specimens examined:— CHIN. Mindat District : 2000 m, 5 Aug 2008, Yasuda 053610 A ( MBK) ; same loc., 7 Aug 2008, Yasuda 060088 ( MBK [s]) ; same loc., 1900 m, 11 Aug 2008, Yasuda 053613 ( MBK, MBK [s]) ; same loc., 3070 m, 30 Jul 2013, Mu Mu Aung et al. 092824 ( MBK) ; same loc., 2400 m, 21 Aug 2013, Fujikawa et al. 094119 ( MBK) ; same loc., 10 Aug 2016, Kurzweil s.n., photo.

Distribution:— The Himalayas, northeastern India, western Myanmar and southwestern China.

Notes:— The above-cited specimens were identified by H. Kurzweil & B.B. Raskoti. Yasuda 053610A, Yasuda 053613, Yasuda 060088 and Fujikawa et al. 094119 are different from typical H. fallax in that they have broader leaves and many-flowered, flexible, wiry inflorescences. However, they are apparently merely variations of this species (B.B. Raskoti, pers. comm.).