• Family : LILIACEAE
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COLCHICACEAE
• Basionym : Melanthium indicum L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Iphigenia indica (L.) A.Gray ex Kunth
• Vernacular name : Neerpanai (Tamil); Markalai (Marathi); Mungarimolaka (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : On plains to about 1600m.
• Flower, Fruit : July-September
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 11/08/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 39959
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Krishna district
  • Telangana : Nizamabad district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : All disricts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Dhenkanal district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
• Native : India to Malaysia
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Himalayas, Myanmar, Malesia, Australia, Thailand
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sankar,R.V., R. Kottaimuthu & K. Ravikumar (2009). Additions to the flora of Sirumalai Hills, Eastern Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1(7): 379-381; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Iphigenia indica. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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