• Family : LILIACEAE
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Phalangium parviflorum (Dalzell) Wight; Chlorophytum parviflorum Dalzell
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chlorophytum laxum R.Br.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Fairly common in plains and on hill slopes
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Telangana : Nizamabad district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Buldhana district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Koraput district, Rayagada district, Kalhandi district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• Native : Paleotropics
• World Distribution : Old World Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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 laxum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description

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