• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Nervilia discolor (Blume) Schltr.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Nervilia plicata (Andrews) Schltr.
• Vernacular name : Dudri, Dukar-kanth (Marathi); Nilathamara (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : February-August
• Collection Nos : HFP 1706, KFP 1185
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai Suburban district, Thane district, Palghar district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Pune district, Satara district
• World Distribution : India, Thailand
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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=Nervilia plicata. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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