• 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) : Goodyera procera (Ker Gawl.) Hook.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Terrestrial. On moss covered rocks or loose boulders in streams or on banks
• Flower, Fruit : February-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Sundergarh district, Mayurbhanj district, Dhenkanal district
• World Distribution : South and SE. Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Prasad, K et al 2012 Conservation of Wild Orchids in Sri Krishnadevaraya University botanical garden, Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(7);2705-2708; 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=Goodyera procera. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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