- Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
- Basionym : Ophrys monorchis L.
- Synonym(s) : Arachnites monorchis (L.) Hoffm.; Epipactis monorchis (L.) F.W.Schmidt; Herminium clandestinum Gren. & Godr.; Herminium haridasanii A.N.Rao; Herminium tanguticum (Maxim.) Rolfe; Monorchis herminium O.Schwarz; Ophrys herminium Gren.; Ophrys triorchis St.-Lag.; Orchis herminium Gren.; Orchis monorchis (L.) Crantz; Satyrium monorchis (L.) Pers.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Herminium monorchis (L.) R.Br.
- Common name : Musk Orchid
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Broad-leaved forests, coniferous forests, thickets, grasslands, grassy swamps, flood lands; 600 - 4500 m. altitude
- Key identification features : Petals rhombic; mid-lobe of lip 1.5-3.2 mm, longer than lateral lobes
- Flower, Fruit : July-August
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Himachal Pradesh : Kinnaur district
- Native : Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, China, Chita, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kore
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Temperate Eurasia to Himalaya
- Literature :
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 230
- Kumar P. et. al., (2008). Orchidaceae, Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India. Check List 4(3): 304–323
- Jalal J.S. and Jayanthi J., (2015)
- AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE ORCHIDS OF WESTERN HIMALAYA, INDIA. LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7-50
- Raskoti B.B., et. al., (2017). A taxonomic revision of Herminium L. (Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae). PhytoKeys 79: 1-74
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Herminium monorchis. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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