• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Habenaria elwesii Hook.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; 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 elwesii. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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