• 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 wightiana Thwaites
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1300m.
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dindigul district
• Native : Sri Lanka
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Fisher, CEC, 1928. Fl. Pres. Madra. Vol. 3, pp. 1410; 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=Liparis wightiana. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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