- Family : VIOLACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Violaceae
- Species : Hybanthus enneaspermus
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Hybanthus enneaspermus (L.) F.Muell.
- Common name : Orange Spade Flower, Spade Flower, Pink Ladies Slipper
- Vernacular name : Ratan purush (Hin.); Purusharathna, Ratna purusha (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 8782, KFP 9252, KFP 1383
- Key identification features : A handsome branching herb with pretty flowers. Leaves are linear-lanceolate with shallowly-crenate margin. Flowers are axillary, about 1.5 cm, long-petioled, bilipped, the lower lip being larger, drawn out and broad. Fruit is a capsule.
- Habit : Herb
- Native : Tropics, South Asia
- Comments : Common herb in wasteland and pastures
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
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