• 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 furcifera Lindl.
• Vernacular name : Riddhi (Sanskrit); Sakota (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests, also in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Not common.
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Nashik district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Frequent in Odisha forests. Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Kalhandi district, Mayurbhanj district, Dhenkanal district, Keonjhar district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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 furcifera. Downloaded on 3 June 2025.

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