Habenaria plantaginea is a species of orchid native to Asia.

Habenaria plantaginea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Habenaria
Species:
H. plantaginea
Binomial name
Habenaria plantaginea

The specific epithet plantaginea may have originated from the plant's resemblance to the genus Plantago.

Distribution

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Habenaria plantaginea

This orchid species is native to tropical and sub-tropical habitats, in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia. The plant prefers shady places in wild. In India it grows in moist and dry deciduous forests. It prefers bushes on rock cervices.

Description

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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.