Typhonium flagelliforme (Lodd.) Blume

 
  • Family : ARACEAE
    (Arum Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Typhonium flagelliforme (Lodd.) Blume
  • Vernacular name : Karinthakara (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments / notes : A few along sides of streams, also plains
  • Flower, Fruit : July-December
  • Collection Nos : KFP 14369
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
    • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nagpur district, Sindhudurg district
  • World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature : 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=Typhonium flagelliforme. Downloaded on 4 April 2025.

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