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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MO019 : Habenaria stenopetala Lindl.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Asparagales
Family : Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Genus : Habenaria Willd. - bog orchid
Species : Habenaria stenopetala Lindl.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Orchid  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Orchidaceae  
 
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Synonym : Habenaria amanoana Ohwi
Habenaria delessertiana Kraenzl.
Habenaria linearipetala Hayata
Habenaria rhynchocarpa (Thwaites) Trimen
Habenaria rhynchocarpa (Thwaites) Hook. f.
Habenaria sutepensis Rolfe ex Downie
Plantaginorchis rhynchocarpa (Thwaites) Szlach.
Platanthera rhynchocarpa Thwaites
Description : Plants 40-89 cm tall. Tubers oblong or narrowly ellipsoid, 2-5 × 1-2 cm, fleshy. Stem erect, terete, stout, with 5-8 leaves near middle and many bractlike leaves above. Leaf blade elliptic or oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8-16 × 3-5.5 cm, base contracted into amplexicaul sheath, apex acute or acuminate. Raceme densely many flowered, 10-20 cm; floral bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2.8 × 0.4-0.6 cm, often longer than flowers, apex aristate; ovary twisted, cylindric-fusiform, including pedicel 1.5-2.2 cm, glabrous. Flowers green or greenish white. Dorsal sepal erect, ovate-elliptic, concave, 1.4-1.6 × 0.4-0.5 cm, 3-veined, apex long acuminate or caudate-aristate; lateral sepals reflexed, obliquely ovate, 1.6-1.8 × 0.5-0.6 cm, 3-veined, apex long acuminate or caudate-aristate. Petals slightly shorter and narrower than dorsal sepal, 2-lobed; upper lobe linear, 10-13 × 1-1.8 mm, 1-veined, apex acuminate; lower lobe narrowly falcate, small, ca. 2.5 mm; lip brownish, 10-15 mm, deeply 3-lobed from base; lateral lobes linear or subulate, shorter than mid-lobe; mid-lobe linear or ligulate, wider than lateral lobes; spur pendulous, cylindric, 15-26 mm, ca. as long as or longer than ovary, apex obtuse; stigmas oblong-clavate. Fl. Aug-Oct. 2n = 40, 42.
 
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Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :