| Habenaria plantaginea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Habenaria |
| Species: | H. plantaginea |
| Binomial name | |
| Habenaria plantaginea | |
Habenaria plantaginea is a species of orchid native to Asia.
The specific epithet plantaginea may have originated from the plant's resemblance to the genus Plantago .
This orchid species is native to tropical and sub-tropical habitats, in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia. [1] The plant prefers shady places in wild. In India it grows in moist and dry deciduous forests. It prefers bushes on rock cervices.
The plant attains a height of about 20–40 centimetres (7.9–15.7 in). Its flowers are white.
Flowers glabrous white with narrowly lanceolate bracts. Dorsal sepals are erect, obtuse at the tip and prominently 3-nerved. Lateral sepals thick, 4 nerved, lateral petals are narrower than the sepals one nerved, more or less hyaline. Lip trilobed, long-spurred with porrect sidelobes. Ovary is shortly stalked. Tubers is oblong, hairy bear 1 or 2 per plant.
In the Indian subcontinent, the tubers of Habenaria plantaginea are used to treat a variety of ailments, including cough, tuberculosis, asthma, helminthiasis, and snake bites. [1] Extracts of the roots and leaves of Habenaria plantaginea have been investigated as candidates against nociception, inflammation, and fever and as an ecologically friendly source of nanocrystals. [1] [2]
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