Habenaria plantaginea

Habenaria plantaginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Orchideae
Subtribe: Orchidinae
Genus: Habenaria
Species: H. plantaginea
Binomial name
Habenaria plantaginea
Lindl.

Habenaria plantaginea is a species of orchid native to Asia.

The specific epithet plantaginea may have originated from the plant's resemblance to the genus Plantago.

Distribution

Habenaria plantaginea

This orchid speciest is native to tropical and sub-tropical habitats, in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia. The plant prefers shady places in wild. In India it grows in moist and dry deciduous forests. Prefers bushes on rock cervices.

Description

The plant attains a height of about 20–40 centimetres (7.9–15.7 in). Its flowers are white.

Flowers glabrous white with narrowly lanceolate bracts.Dorsal sepals are erect, obtuse at the tip and prominently 3-nerved. Lateral sepals thick, 4 nerved, lateral petals are narrower than the sepals one nerved, more or less hyaline. Lip trilobed, long-spurred with porrect sidelobes. Ovary is shortly stalked. Tubers is oblong, hairy bear 1 or 2 per plant.

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