• 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) : Trias stocksii Benth. ex Hook.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic. Rare, grows on tree trunks.
• Flower, Fruit : January-March
• Collection Nos : HFP 1324, CJS 11525, CJS 16222
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Udupi district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Thane district, Palghar district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra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=Trias stocksii. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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