• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Epipogium nutans (Blume) Rchb.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Epipogium roseum (D.Don) Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Aphyllous saprophytic herb
• Flower, Fruit : April-May
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Locality : Sugandhagiri, Wynad District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : Africa through Asia to Australia and New Guinea
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Epipogium roseum. Downloaded on 25 October 2025.

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