Habenaria grandifloriformis, Single Leaved Habenaria, chhotaghodatap, Ashadh habe-amri, Chichurkanda

Habenaria grandifloriformis Blatt. & McCann
Family: Orchidaceae
Synobym: Habenaria grandiflora Lindl. ex Dalzell & Gibson

Common name: Single Leaved Habenaria, Large flowered Habenaria
Marathi: आषाढ हबेअमरी Ashadh habe-amri, चिचुरकांदा Chichurkanda, चिकरकांदा Chikarkanda
Hindi: chhotaghodatap

Description: Terrestrial herbs, to 12 cm long; tuber solitary, 1.8 x 1 cm, ovoid. Leaves 2-3 x 1.5-3 cm, usually single, radical, lying flat on the ground, coriaceous, sessile, ovate or sub-orbicular, apex obtuse or acute, cordate at base. Flowers white, 1-4, in terminal racemes; scape with 1 or 2 sheaths at base; pedicels including ovary to 3 cm long; bracts 1-1.5 cm long, ovate, acuminate. Sepals free, unequal, ovate; dorsal short, 3-nerved; laterals longer, 5-7-nerved. Petals white, 2-partite; upper segment ovate, equal to sepals; lower narrowly linear. Lip 3-lobed; lateral segments narrower. Spur 2.5 cm long, longer than ovary. Column short, greenish-white. Anther 1, 2-celled; pollinia 2; caudicle long; gland orbicular; staminodes white, glandular. Ovary curved, ribbed; stigmatic processes 2 mm long, parallel, clavate; rostellum greenish, in between anther cells.

 

Used  in  Ayurveda.  Tuber  powder  with  milk  in  general debility.

2 Published articles of  Habenaria grandifloriformis

1. Contributions to the megasporogenesis and megagametogenesis in Habenaria grandifloriformis Lindl. and Platanthera susannae (L.) Lindl. (Orchidaceae)
By: Swamy, K. Krishna; Kumar, H. N. Krishna; Ramaswamy, S. N.
Advances in Plant Sciences  Volume: 18   Issue: 2   Pages: 439-448   Published: DEC 2005

2. IDENTITY OF HABENARIA-GRANDIFLORIFORMIS BLATT MCC
By: SASIKUMAR, B
CURRENT SCIENCE  Volume: 44   Issue: 8   Pages: 277-277   Published: 1975