• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aerides maculosa Lindl.
• Common name : Cat-tail Orchid
• Vernacular name : Draupadhi pushpa (Kannada)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic
• Flower, Fruit : May-October
• Distribution :
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Koraput district, Bargarh district, Kalhandi district, Ganjam district
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Biodiversity Characterisation at LL in Eastern Ghats and East Coast using SRS & GIS; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
• 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 maculosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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