• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Basionym : Onychium flavescens Blume
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Polystachya concreta (Jacq.) Garay & H.R.Sweet
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : On hills to about 1200m, on shola trees
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic Orchid
• Flower, Fruit : June-July
• Collection Nos : HFP 482, CJS 14572, KFP 2632
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Koraput district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Dharmapuri district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Prasad, K et al 2012 Conservation of Wild Orchids in Sri Krishnadevaraya University botanical garden, Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(7);2705-2708; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• 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=Polystachya flavescens. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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