Habenaria roxburghii Nicolson 1976 SECTION Macroceratitis Kraenzl.
Photo by © J.M.Garg and The Wikipedia Habenaria website
Drawing by © Sarat Misra
Common Name Roxburgh's Habenaria
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in coastal India under bushes and rocky crevices in moist deciduous and dry deciduous forests at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with 3 to 5, rather fleshy, orbicular-elliptic, adpressed to the ground leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, densely many flowered inflorescence with green, close fitting, narrowly lanceolate, subulate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very fragrant flowers.
"Distinguished by the fleshy, dark green leaves adpressed to the ground, the densely white flowered inflorescence, the lip with shorter lateral lobes and a geniculate spur." Misra 2014
Synonyms Gymnadenia plantaginea (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Wall. 1832; Habenaria platyphylla Spreng. 1826; Habenaria platyphylloides M.R.Almeida 2009; Orchis plantaginea Roxb. 1795; Orchis platyphyllos Willd. 1805; *Orchis roxburghii Pers. 1807; Orchis tenuis Rottler ex Wall. 1832; Pecteilis roxburghii (Nicolson) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Pl. Coromandel 1: 32 Roxb. 1795 as Orchis plantaginea
Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 1: 11 Willd. 1805 as Orchis platyphyllos nom. superfl.;
Syn. Pl. 2: 503 Pers. 1807 as Orchis roxburghii nom. superfl.
Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 690 Spreng 1826 as H platyphylla nom. superfl.
Numer. List: n.° 7053 Lindl. ex Wall 1832
Numer. List: n.° 7053 Rottler ex Wall. 1832 as Orchis tenuis nom. nud.
The Orchids of Bombay Santapau & Kapadia 1966 as H platyphylla;
Indian Orchids A Field Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 1 Pradhan 1976 as H platyphylla drawing good;
*Fl. Hassan Distr.: 834 Nicolson 1976
The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing hmm;
Fl. Maharashtra 5A: 61 M.R.Almeida 2009 as H platyphylliodes nom. superfl.;
Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide;
Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018;
Austral. Orchid Rev. 83(6): 53 M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2018 as Pecteilis roxburghii
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