• Family : ARACEAE
  (Arum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Arisaema attenuatum E.Barnes & C.E.C.Fisch.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Arisaema leschenaultii Blume
• Vernacular name : Paambukkodi (Tamil); Pambucholam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills at about 1200m in shade, especially on the shola floor, evergreen forests and grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : May-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3; Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Arisaema leschenaultii. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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