Herbarium JCB

Malaxis rheedei Swartz

Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
Basionym : Seidenfia rheedei (Sw.) Szlach.
Synonym(s) : Seidenfia rheedei (Sw.) Szlach.; Crepidium resupinatum (G.Forst.) Szlach.
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crepidium resupinatum (G.Forst.) Szlach.
Vernacular name : Rushabha (Sanskrit); Jeevakam, Pachilaperumal (Malayalam); Jivadumpa (Telugu)
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
Comments / notes : Terrestrial or Epiphytic or Lithophytic. Often on hills above 1100m, on the floor of shola in humus in shade.
Flower, Fruit : July-March
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Amravati district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Keonjhar district, Dhenkanal district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 July
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=Malaxis rheedei. Downloaded on 4 November 2025.