Slender terrestrial herb ; 30-100 cm tall , with spreading oblanceolate leaves , glabrous . Stems erect , weak . Leaves oblanceolate , thin , soft and mainly in middle of stem . Inflorescences many-flowered . Flowers green ; dorsal sepal erect , or nearly so ; lateral sepals deflexed ; petals bipartite , posterior lobe adnate to dorsal sepal . Fruit not seen . Seeds not seen . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
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Rare & Threatened (RT) - Near Threatened (NT) - National Assessment
Not Common
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Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "The tubers of both orchids (H. malacophylla and H. myodes) are edible, and the two species are considered to be simply variants of a single plant. The tubers can be eaten raw when they have a rather astringent and acrid taste, or alternatively (and preferably) cooked slowly with other small tubers and bulbs, such as Gladiolus ukambenensis (= G. candidus) [J: bedah]. They are extremely easy to pull up since the tuber grows close to the surface, and large quantities could be gathered quickly and with ease during the short growing season. They were, therefore, in hungrier times, an extremely important source of nourishment at this difficult time of year (called in J: ziyum) when life was at its hardest, livestock weak and unproductive, and other food scarce. However, these tubers were never actively liked or regarded as an annual treat as were the
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Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.passiflora.it Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0. POWO (2022). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
