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n. - Chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes.

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  • This refers to Peristylus viridis, sometimes known as Habenaria viridis.
  • Higrophilus species such as Paspalum lilloi with Habenaria bractescens (orchid) and Dickya sp. form grasslands in the wettest areas close to the falls.
  • Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes.
  • A tree with the habit of Pterospermum occurs on Thuma - thaya, low down Habenaria uniflora on rocks in the Dirsoo Panee, or river; Kydia occurs about Yen, but not higher.
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