MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MO003 : Habenaria grandifloriformis Blatt. & McCann |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 491 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In higher elvations in Chikhaldara and Dhakna ranges | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Orchid | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Endemic | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Orchidaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Single Leaved Habenaria, Large flowered Habenaria • Marathi: Ashadh habe-amri, Chichurkanda, Chikarkanda | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Habenaria grandiflora Lindl. ex Dalzell & Gibson. |
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| Description : | Terrestrial herbs, to 12 cm long; tuber solitary, 1.8 x 1 cm, ovoid. Leaves 2-3 x 1.5-3 cm, usually single, radical, lying flat on the ground, coriaceous, sessile, ovate or sub-orbicular, apex obtuse or acute, cordate at base. Flowers white, 1-4, in terminal racemes; scape with 1 or 2 sheaths at base; pedicels including ovary to 3 cm long; bracts 1-1.5 cm long, ovate, acuminate. Sepals free, unequal, ovate; dorsal short, 3-nerved; laterals longer, 5-7-nerved. Petals white, 2-partite; upper segment ovate, equal to sepals; lower narrowly linear. Lip 3-lobed; lateral segments narrower. Spur 2.5 cm long, longer than ovary. Column short, greenish-white. Anther 1, 2-celled; pollinia 2; caudicle long; gland orbicular; staminodes white, glandular. Ovary curved, ribbed; stigmatic processes 2 mm long, parallel, clavate; rostellum greenish, in between anther cells. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Used in Ayurveda. Tuber powder with milk in general debility. (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : |
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