• 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) : Peristylus aristatus Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, grasslands and moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-September
• Collection Nos : HFP 863, HFP 2001, CJS 14591
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Satara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; 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; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 Aug.
• 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=Peristylus aristatus. Downloaded on 25 October 2025.

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