- Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
- Basionym : Habenaria edgeworthii Hook.f. ex Collett
- Synonym(s) : Habenella edgeworthii (Hook.f. ex Collett) Szlach. & Kras-Lap.; Platantheroides edgeworthii (Hook.f. ex Collett) Szlach.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Herminium edgeworthii (Hook.f. ex Collett) X.H.Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & Lu Q.Huang
- Common name : Edgeworth's Habenaria
- Vernacular name :
- Riddhi (Hindi)
- Riddhi (Tamil)
- Riddhi (Malayalam)
- Riddhi(Telugu)
- Riddhi (Kannada)
- Riddhi (Sanskrit)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : On grassy pastures, up to 3000 m
- Comments / notes : The tubers of Edgeworth's Habenaria are used in Ayurvedic medicine. The medicine goes by the name Riddhi.
- Key identification features : Plants up to 50(-75) cm, with rather small, ± sessile tuberoids. Stem leafy, somewhat flexuous. Leaves (2-)3-4, sheathing, the second largest, to 6-10 x 4.5 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescence cylindrical, up to 20(-25) cm long, 3 cm broad, dense. Bracts lanceolate, ± equalling the ovary in length. Flowers yellow and green, deflexed in bud. Sepals green, margins ciliolate, the dorsal broader than long, broadly ovate 3-4 x 4-5 mm, the lateral sepals somewhat larger, oblong, 5-6 mm long, ± deflexed; petals bright yellow, sometimes greenish-yellow, thick, obliquely triangular from c. 4 mm broad base, 5(-6) mm long, curved inwards and forming a hood with dorsal sepal. Labellum entire, 7-9 mm long, strap-shaped, bright yellow, its base forming a 1-1.5 mm broad, slightly chanelled claw, the anterior portion ± abruptly deflexed, 5-6 mm long, c.l mm broad, on the flexion with a distinct transverse gibbosity. Spur longer than ovary, to 1.5-2.5 cm, spreading and directed upwards, usually hooked downwards towards the tip. Column 2-3 mm, anther canals short, stigmatic processes short, oblong. Ovary twisted, glabrous.
- Flower, Fruit : July-August
- Distribution :
- Himachal Pradesh : Mandi district
- Native : East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya
- Exotic/Native : Native
- Literature :
- Photographs of Ashuthosh Sharma
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Platanthera edgeworthii. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.
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