Habenaria marginata
Habenaria marginata
Habenaria marginata
Habenaria marginata
Habenaria marginata
MO018 : Habenaria marginata Colebr.
| Plant Category | : | Orchid |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 53 |
| 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.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Golden Yellow Habenaria, Pivali habe amri |
| Plant Family | : | Orchidaceae |
| 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. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Bhootkhara |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat.
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229905
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Golden%20Yellow%20Habenaria.html
- http://www.orchidspecies.com/habmarginata.htm |
| 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Lilidae |
| Order | : Orchidales |
| Family | : Orchidaceae - Orchid family |
| Genus | : Habenaria Willd. - bog orchid |
| Species | : Habenaria marginata |