• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Nervilia plicata auct. non (Andrews) Schltr.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Nervilia plicata (Andrews) Schltr.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Terrestrial
• Flower, Fruit : June-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Kandhamal district, Ganjam district, Keonjhar district
• World Distribution : India, Malaya, Java
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Naidu, M.T, O.A. Kumar & M. Venkaiah (2015). Vascular plant diversity in the sacred grove of Modapalli in Viskhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7683-7690; Yoganarasimhan et al., 1981 – Chikmagalur
• 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=Nervilia discolor. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

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