- Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
- Basionym : Lichenora jerdoniana Wight
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Porpax jerdoniana (Wight) Rolfe
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Grows on tree trunks and rocks
- Flower, Fruit : April-August
- Collection Nos : HFP 2006, CJS 14596, KFP 14638
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Southwest India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara, 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=Porpax jerdoniana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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