• Family : LILIACEAE
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Chlorophytum heyneanum Wall. ex Hook.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chlorophytum heynei Baker
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 750m
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kollimalai hills Namakkal district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Chlorophytum heynei. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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