Botanical name: Habenaria modesta    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Habenaria ovalifolia, Habenaria platantheropsis

Modest Habenaria is a medium to large sized terrestrial orchid with 1 to 2, ovate-ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, round stem enveloped by 3 to 5 sheaths towards the base. The plant carries 3-7 oblong, ovate-lanceshaped, pointed, hairless, entire leaves, clustered below the middle of the stem. The plant blooms in the later summer on a 10-40 cm long, many flowered raceme with basally almost concave, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying dull green flowers. Flowers are 2 cm across, somewhat similar to Habenaria furcifera, but have linear-lanceshaped pointed lateral lobes of the lip, an ovate-oblong mid-lobe coherent with galea and a thread-like faintly bulged club-shaped spur. Modest Habenaria is found in Western Ghats.

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