• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Basionym : Habenaria goodyeroides D. Don.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Peristylus goodyeroides (D.Don) Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open forests and grasslands, also as undergrowth of thickets
• Comments / notes : Along margins of forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Rayagada district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district
• World Distribution : India incl. Andaman, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, New Guinea
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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.
• 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 goodyeroides. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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