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Habenaria plantaginea
Habenaria plantaginea is a species of orchid native to Asia.
The specific epithet plantaginea may have originated from the plant's resemblance to the genus Plantago.
This orchid species is native to tropical and sub-tropical habitats, in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia. The plant prefers shady places in wild. In India it grows in moist and dry deciduous forests.
In the Indian subcontinent, the tubers of Habenaria plantaginea are used to treat a variety of ailments, including cough, tuberculosis, asthma, helminthiasis, and snake bites. Extracts of the roots and leaves of Habenaria plantaginea have been investigated as candidates against nociception, inflammation, and fever and as an ecologically friendly source of nanocrystals.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Habenaria plantaginea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
