• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Aerides lindleyana Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aerides crispum Lindl.
• Common name : Curled Aerides
• Vernacular name : Pan-Shing, Ruk-Shing (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open forests
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic
• Flower, Fruit : May-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Keonjhar district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
• 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Aerides crispum. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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