• Family : LILIACEAE
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chlorophytum nimmonii Dalzell
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Very rare, grows among bushes.
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : India and Tropical Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 nimmonii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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