In the open high altitude grasslands, Single Leaved Habenaria enchantingly
allures the onlookers with its pure white flowers against the green wild
grass. The leaf, usually only one, heart shaped and rounded, lies flat on the
ground. Flowers are white in 1-5 bundles with bilobed petals. Lip with 3
narrow lobes having spur longer than the ovary. It is a terrestrial herb,
growing to 12 cm high. Tuber solitary, 1.8 x 1 cm, ovoid. It is one of
the first flowering herbs to appear at the onset of monsoons.
Flowering: June-July.
Photographed in Maharashtra.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
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