Habenaria epipactidea leaves

The pointed, ribbed, green leaves of Habenaria epipactidea can be seen on the stem photographed in grassland. Decreasing in size from the base as they spiral up in sub-opposite arrangement, the leaves sheathe the stem. They angle their tips up and out right to the base of the flower spike.

From there upwards the leaves grade into the bracts subtending the flowers of the inflorescence (Pooley, 1998; Lowrey and Wright, 1987; iNaturalist).