• Family : VIOLACEAE
  (Violet Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RATHNAPURUSHA FAMILY (रत्नपुरुष फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VIOLACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Viola serpens Wall. ex Ging.; Viola wightiana Wall. ex Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Viola pilosa Blume
• Vernacular name : Bilikamakasturi (Kannada)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Small herb
• Flower, Fruit : January-April
• Collection Nos : KFP 9617, KFP 11384, CS 1225
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district, Theni district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia and China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Ravichandran V personal observation 2015 Feb.
• 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=Viola pilosa. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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