• 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) : Calanthe sylvatica (Thouars) Lindl.
• Vernacular name : Thenvaazhachedi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district (GKVK, Campus)
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• World Distribution : Widespread from Africa, Madagascar and Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• 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=Calanthe sylvatica. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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