Dear Pankaj Sir, Thanks for correction but I even checked on Flowers of India Mr. Pravin Kawale's photo which was identified by Pravin ji and Mr. Navendu Page.
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Golden%20Yellow%20Habenaria.html Regards Ninad Raut SRF, WII (Dehra Dun) On Aug 19, 11:38 pm, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Ninad > > Thanks a lot for sharing. This is one of the very few Habenarias in > India which has yellow flowers. Till evening I thought that this plant > is > > Habenaria marginata Colebr. in W.J.Hooker, Exot. Fl.: t. 136 (1824). > > but when I saw Dr. Almeida's Flora of Maharastra, I got shocked and my > over 8 years of Orchid research went in vain, because he calls this > plant as > > Habenaria heyneana Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 320 (1835), Almeida, > Orchidaceae in, Flora of Maharastra vol 5A, t. 18, f. 52, p. 58 > (2009). > > and according to him this is the plant which is called Tooth Brush > Orchid. At first I thought there was a mistake in attaching the pics > in the book, but then I realised that he has described this plant with > yellow flowers, but the original H. heyneana which I had known was > having white flowers which were secund. > > God save me! > Pankaj > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Ninad Raut <rautnin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > Sharing Habenaria marginata with you all. > > > Details: Common name: (English) Golden Yellow Habenaria; (Marathi) पिवली > > हबेआमरी (Pivali habe amri) > > > Photographed at: District Tehri, Uttarakhand on August 14, 2010. > > > Forest type: Pine Forest > > > Elevation: 1300m > > > Additional info: > > > Acc. to eFlora of China: > > > Habenaria marginata Colebrooke in Hooker, Exot. Fl. 2: ad t. 136. 1824. > > > Platanthera marginata (Colebrooke) Lindley. > > > Plants 8-37 cm tall. Tubers ellipsoid or narrowly ellipsoid, 2-4 × 1-2.5 cm, > > fleshy. Stem erect, terete, glabrous, with 1 or 2 tubular sheaths at base, > > 3-5 leaves below middle, and 3-5 bractlike leaves above. Leaf blade narrowly > > oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 4-9 × 1-2 cm, base contracted into amplexicaul > > sheath, margin yellow when dried, apex acuminate or subobtuse. Raceme > > 3-15-flowered, 2.5-10 cm; floral bracts lanceolate, apex long acuminate; > > ovary twisted, arching, cylindric-fusiform, including pedicel 8-13 mm. > > Sepals green, petals and lip yellow. Dorsal sepal forming a hood with > > petals, erect, cordate or broadly ovate, concave, 7-7.5 × 5-6 mm, 3-veined, > > apex acute; lateral sepals reflexed, obliquely ovate or narrowly > > ovate-oblong, 7.5-8.5 × 2.5-3.5 mm, 3-veined, apex acute. Petals obliquely > > ovate-triangular, 6.5-7.3 × 3-3.8 mm, 2-veined, apex acute; lip spreading, > > 11-13 mm, deeply 3-lobed above base; lateral lobes spreading at acute angles > > to mid-lobe, linear or linear-lanceolate, 7-8 × 1-1.4 mm; mid-lobe ligulate, > > 8-9 × 2-2.3 mm; spur pendulous, clavate, 8-13 mm, apical half dilated and > > 1.5-2 mm in diam.; stigmas falcate, long. Fl. Oct-Nov. 2n = 42. > > > Forests, grasslands at forest margins; 500-1200 m. S Yunnan [Bhutan, India, > > Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand]. > > > [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242422762] > > > Acc. to eFlora of Pakistan > > > Type: Botanical Garden, Calcutta (Introduced by accident according to Mr. > > Cole¬brooke, obs. July 1814). > > > Distribution: Northwestern Himalaya, eastwards to Bhutan and Burma, up to > > 3000 m. > > > [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242422762] > > > Many Regards, > > Ninad > > > -- > > Ninad B. Raut > > Senior Research Fellow > > > "Survey and Mapping of Medicinal Plants in Uttarakhand" > > Department of Habitat Ecology > > Wildlife Institute of India > > P.O. Box # 18, Chandrabani > > Dehradun - 248 001. India > > Tel: 0135 26401 11 - 15 > >
