• Family : LILIACEAE
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Ophiopogon indicus Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ophiopogon intermedius D.Don
• Vernacular name : Thalaivalka, Orukkupullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Shola forests and grasslands, also Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on Hills above 1500m on shola floors
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Theni district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Himalayas, Thailand, West China, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; 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; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 Aug.
• 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=Ophiopogon intermedius. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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