• 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) : Liparis atropurpurea Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : In rock crevices in grasslands and Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. and S. Karuppusamy (2016). Check list of Endemic flowering plants of Western Ghats from Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Biological Records, e0042016: 36-51.
• 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=Liparis atropurpurea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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