Habenaria polyodon Hook.f. (1890:139)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Habenaria fimbriata Wight in Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1712 (1851), nom. illeg.
Conservation Status
Last record: pre-1850 (Ravichandran et al., 2019)
Rediscovered on 17 September 2018 (Ravichandran et al., 2019:233)
Distribution
Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Henry, A. N., Vivekananthan, K. and Nair, N. C. (1978). Rare and Threatened Flowering Plants of South India. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 75: 684-697 [695].
Joseph, J. (1987). Orchids of Nilgiris. Howrah: Botanical Survey of India.
Noble, William A. (2004). The aftermath of the Pleistocene in the Upper Nilgiris of southern India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 101(1): 29-63 [60]. ["now extinct?"]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Ravichandran, Vellingiri, Manikandan, M. and Murugan, C. (2019). Rediscovery and Typification of Habenaria polyodon Hook.f., a little known narrow endemic orchid from Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The Indian Journal of Forestry 42(3): 231-233.