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Plant in situ India

Photos by © Dinesh Valke and His Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Plantago-Like Peristylus

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka in dry deciduous forests, moist deciduous forests, semi-evergreen forests at elevations up to 800 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with cylindric-oblong tubers giving rise to a robust, leafy stem carrying oblong-lanceolate, acuminate to acute, wavy, strongly veined beneath, subampleicaul below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Habenaria elata (Dalzell) Alston 1931; Habenaria goodyeroides Hook.1835; Habenaria wightii Trimen 1885; *Herminium plantagineum Lindl. 1832; Peristylus elatus Dalzell 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol V Ames 1915 as H goodyerioides; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 drawing ok; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo fide;

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