• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Habenaria digitata var. travancorica (Hook.f.) Pradhan
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Habenaria digitata Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills to 1400m; moist slopes, shallow soil, in full sun.
• Key identification features : Lower leaves reduced to infundibular sheaths
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Yavatmal district, Akola district
  • Odisha : Koraput district, Bargarh district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• Native : Indo-Burma
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Bangladesh, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Habenaria digitata. Downloaded on 3 June 2025.

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