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Habenaria roxburghii

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Habenaria roxburghii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Orchidaceae
Genus:
Habenaria
Species:
H. roxburghii
Binomial name
Habenaria roxburghii
Synonyms[1]

Orchis tenuis Rottler ex Wall.
Orchis roxburghii Pers.
Orchis platyphyllos Willd.
Orchis plantaginea Roxb.
Habenaria platyphylla Spreng.
Gymnadenia plantaginea (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Wall.

Habenaria roxburghii is a species of orchid found in southern India. It is a tuberous terrestrial herb, 25-35 cm tall.Leaves orbicular, thick 3-5 in a rosette,adpressed to the ground, dark green to glauous, waxy. Flowers pure white in densely clustered at tip of a long erect peduncles. Endemic to the south Deccan. Rare in scrub jungles to 8700m, often sheltered inside thorny hushes or on the thin layer of soil by exposed rocks. Common in poor dry soil, in scrub under light cover.

Vernacular names

Malle Leena Gadda and Chuka dumpa in Telgu[2][3]

References

  1. ^ http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-95528
  2. ^ Ch. Sudhakar Reddy; K. N. Reddy; Chiranjibi Pattanaik; Vatsavaya S. Raju (2006). "Ethnobotanical Observations on some Endemic Plants of Eastern Ghats, India" (PDF). Ethnobotanical Leaflets. Opensiuc.lib.siu.edu. ISSN 0975-1491. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  3. ^ http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Roxburgh's%20Habenaria.html
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