• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Basionym : Odontochilus rotundifolius Blatt.
• Synonym(s) : Anoectochilus rotundifolius (Blatt.) N.P.Balakr.; Aenhenrya agastyamalayana Gopalan
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aenhenrya rotundifolia (Blatt.) Sath.Kumar & F.N.Rasm.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Terrestrial
• Flower, Fruit : May-June
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district, Tirunelveli district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. and S. Karuppusamy (2016). Check list of Endemic flowering plants of Western Ghats from Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Biological Records, e0042016: 36-51; Gopalana, R. & Henry, A. N. 2000. Endemic plants of India CAMP for the strict endemics of Agasthimalai hills, SW Ghats. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.
• 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=Aenhenrya rotundifolia. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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