• 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) : Gastrochilus calceolaris (Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.) D.Don
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Not common.
• Flower, Fruit : April-June
• Collector(s) Name : Fr. Kadavil
• Collection Locality : Ponthenpuzha, Pathanamthitta District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district
• Native : Philippines
• Endemism : Deccan Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Literature : B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Chithra & Balakrishnan (1989). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 3
• 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=Gastrochilus calceolaris. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)