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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MO018 : Habenaria marginata Colebr.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 53  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Orchidales
Family : Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Genus : Habenaria Willd. - bog orchid
Species : Habenaria marginata
Plant Location in Melghat : Bhootkhara  
Plant Category : Orchid  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Orchidaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Golden Yellow Habenaria, Pivali habe amri
 
Synonym : 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.
Platanthera marginata Lindl. ex Wall., nom. nud.
Description : Plants 10-25 cm tall with turnip-shaped tuberoids. Stem with 3-5 closely crowded sub-basal leaves, above with 2-4 small leaf-like sheaths. Leaves sessile, spreading, and ovate to oblong, acute, with pale yellow margins. Inflorescence broadly cylindrical, up to 10(-15) x 5 cm. Bracts lanceolate, ± equalling in length the ovary. Flowers green and yellow. Sepals green; dorsal broadly ovate 7-8 x 7 mm, forming a hood with the petals; lateral sepals narrower, oblong-lanceolate, 7 x 3.5 mm. Petals greenish, outer half yellow, triangular-ovate, slightly falcate, 9 mm long, 5 mm broad at base. Labellum bright yellow, 3-lobed from a 2-3 mm long undivided basal part; mid-lobe linear, margins reflexed, obtuse 7-8 x 1.5-2 mm, side lobes longer, narrower, 9 mm long, usually terminating in an ± involute filiform apex. Spur equalling ovary in length, about 12 mm long, widened at base, with slightly inflated and laterally compressed apex. Anther canals c. l mm, stigmatic processes c. 1.5 mm long.
 
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Reference : ~ Bijaya Pant; "Medicinal orchids and their uses: Tissue culture a potential alternative for conservation"; Afr. J. Plant Sci. (2013); 7(10): 448-467 PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID :