Herbarium JCB

Crinum latifolium L.

Family : AMARYLLIDACEAE
(Amaryllis Family)
Family (Hindi name) : SUDARSHAN FAMILY (सुदर्शन फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : AMARYLLIDACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crinum latifolium L.
Vernacular name : Chindar, Pindar (Malayalam); Sukdarshan (Hindi)
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Banks of rivers
Comments / notes : On hills above 800m, on bare sun-exposed slopes, rocky areas in grasslands
Flower, Fruit : March-July
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Maharashtra : Amravati district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Ganjam 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
World Distribution : Tropical Asia, Africa
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; 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; Raja Kullayiswamy, Sandhya Rani, Sadasivaiah & Pullaiah (2017). Flora of Thummalapalle Uranium Mining Area, Andhra Pradesh, India. Regency Publications.
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=Crinum latifolium. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.