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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MO004 : Habenaria plantaginea Lindl.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 492  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Asparagales
Family : Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Genus : Habenaria
Species : Habenaria plantaginea Lindl.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Orchid  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Orchidaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : plantain habenaria, kadali habe-amri, Plantain Orchid,
 
Synonym : Gymnadenia plantaginea Lindl.
Plantaginorchis plantaginea (Lindl.) Szlach.


Description : Herbs; stem 6-20 cm high. Leaves 3 or 4, 5.5-8.5 x 2-3 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, adpressed to the ground. Flowers white, in about 26 cm long, lax raceme; dorsal sepal 5 x 4 mm, broadly ovate, obtuse, 3-veined, hooded; lateral sepals 6 x 3.5 mm, obliquely elliptic, obtuse, 5-veined; petals 4 x 2 mm, obliquely elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 1-veined; lip 3-lobed; lateral lobes 6 x 7 mm, ovate, subacute, crenate; midlobe 6 x 2 mm, spathulate, subacute; spur 33 mm long, cylindric, acute.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Tubers used as folk medicine to treat cough, asthma, helminthiasis, insanity and snake bite. The plant has been used as medicine for the treatment of tuberculosis and paralysis.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -

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~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :