• 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) : Cottonia peduncularis (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : January-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Davanagare district, Bengaluru district
  • Odisha : Gajapati district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanar; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere; K. Sankara Rao 2009. Flowering Plants of IISc, A Field Guide.
• 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=Cottonia peduncularis. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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