• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Basionym : Micropera maculata Dalz.
• Synonym(s) : Loxoma maculatum (Dalzell) Garay
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Smithsonia maculata (Dalzell) C.J.Saldanha
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic
• Flower, Fruit : May-July
• Collection Nos : HFP 407, HFP 2856, KFP 1680, KFP 773
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• Endemism : India
• 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=Smithsonia maculata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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