• 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) : Eria exilis Hook.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Not common
• Flower, Fruit : October-May
• Collection Nos : HFP 2782, CJS 12909, CJS 16645
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Satara district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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=Eria exilis. Downloaded on 5 June 2025.

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