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Botanical name: Habenaria perrottetiana Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Habenaria lutea, Platanthera lutea
Synonyms: Habenaria lutea, Platanthera lutea
Yellow Habenaria is a terrestrial orchid with stem
20-50 cm tall. Leaves are up to 7 x 3 cm, elliptic-oblong, pointed.
Flowers are yellow, few, in about 15 cm long spike; bracts 3 x 1.7 cm,
broadly elliptic, pointed-apiculate, leaf-like, almost concealing the
flowers. Dorsal sepal is 15 x 9 mm, ovate-oblong, blunt, 5-veined;
lateral sepals 15 x 9 mm, elliptic, blunt, 7-veined; petals 15 x 4 mm,
obliquely oblong, pointed, 4-veined; spur 15 mm long, club-shaped.
Yellow Habenaria is endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering:
September-October.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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