• Family : LILIACEAE
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Basionym : Hyacinthus revolutus L.f.
• Synonym(s) : Scilla hyacinthina (Roth) Macbride; Scilla indiaca (Wight) Baker; Barnardia indica Wight; Ledebouria hyacinthina Roth
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ledebouria revoluta (L.f.) Jessop
• Vernacular name : Narivengayam, Kattuvengayam (Tamil); Kanthanam, Narivengayam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on plains to about 1400m, on bare slopes, in thin layer of soil by the rocks.
• Flower, Fruit : April-September
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Chandrapur district, Buldhana district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Tropical East Africa, Yemen
• 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; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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; emonocot http://e-monocot.org/tour#classify 09-10-2015; 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=Ledebouria revoluta. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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