You will be surprised Gibs, that cant be Peristylus. Ovary is not parallel to the stalk. The first one to me is Habenaria plantaginea and the other two are Habenaria furcifera.
BUT IT CANT BE CONFIRMED LIKE THIS. Prasad, if you can see, the leaves in first pic is appressed on the ground, but in other two, its slightly raised with wavy margin. These form important characters at times. Secondly, assuming that all pics were taken on the same day, pic one is in buds where as other two are in new fruits. Plant identification in such case becomes tricky and our identification and our credibility is at risk if we incorrectly identify the plants. If it goes wrong, people point fingers on us. I was once checkign some orchids in Delhi University and I told some names to them. By mistake they might have heard wrongly so they wrote incorrectly on the sheet. A second person came and saw those sheets and then he abused and insulted me in front of every one. Though it was not my fault. Similar were the reason why one of our friend HS got annoyed and angry on and reacted rudely few days back. Be happy I wrote all these in good sense... :) Enjoy Pankaj On Nov 1, 3:37 pm, rajdeo singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > it looks like *Habenaria ovalifolia *Wight > > Rajdeo Singh > Project fellow > St. Xavier's College, > Mumbai
