• 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) : Aerides ringens (Lindl.) C.E.C.Fisch.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Rare, Often on hills above 450m.
• Flower, Fruit : April-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chitradurga district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Bengaluru district (GKVK, Campus)
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Malkangiri district, Koraput district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; 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=Aerides ringens. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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