• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Basionym : Eria braccata (Lindl.) Lindl.
• Synonym(s) : Eria braccata auct. non. Lindl. (Nayar et al. 2006. Fl. of Kerala); Eria reticosa Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Conchidium braccatum (Lindl.) Brieger
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests, also in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Often on hills of higher altitudes on trees.
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Hassan district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Kolhapur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Deccan Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Literature : Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; 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. 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=Conchidium braccatum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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