Roxburgh's Habenaria
Habenaria roxburghii in the Talakona forest in India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Habenaria
Species:
H. roxburghii
Binomial name
Habenaria roxburghii
Synonyms[1]

Orchis tenuis Rottler ex Wall.
Orchis roxburghii Pers.
Orchis platyphyllos Willd.
Orchis plantaginea Roxb.
Habenaria platyphylla Spreng.
Gymnadenia plantaginea (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Wall.

Habenaria roxburghii, commonly known as Roxburgh's habenaria,[2] malle leena gadda[3] and as chekku dumpa in Telugu,[2] is a species of orchid found in southern India. It is a tuberous terrestrial herb, 250–350 mm (10–10 in) tall. There are two or three more or less round leaves, about 70 mm (3 in) long and 50 mm (2 in) wide lying flat on the ground. The flowers pure white are arranged in long, dense cluster up to 80 mm (3 in) long. The sepals are broad egg-shaped, about 8 mm (0.3 in) long and the labellum has three lobes. The middle lobe is 8 mm (0.3 in) long and the side lobes are small. The species is usually found in shady places in the undergrowth of forests and is found in the Eastern Ghats.[4]

Taxonomy and naming

Habenaria roxburghii was first formally described in 1976 by Dan Henry Nicolson and the description was published in the book "Flora of Hassan District, Karnataka, India".[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Habenaria roxburghii Nicolson — The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org.
  2. 1 2 "Roxburgh's Habenaria". Flowers of India. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  3. ↑ Ch. Sudhakar Reddy; K. N. Reddy; Chiranjibi Pattanaik; Vatsavaya S. Raju (2006). "Ethnobotanical Observations on some Endemic Plants of Eastern Ghats, India" (PDF). Ethnobotanical Leaflets. Opensiuc.lib.siu.edu. ISSN 0975-1491. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  4. ↑ "Habenaria roxburghii". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Habenaria roxburghii". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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