• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Aphyllorchis montana Rchb.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aphyllorchis montana Rchb.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Terrestrial, rare. Among the undergrowth in moist areas of semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Buds brownish-purple, presence of auricled claw on the lip.
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 14222
• Collection Locality : Kenchankumri State forest (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Papavinasam (Chittoor district)
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, Vol. 3. pp. 933.; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; 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=Aphyllorchis prainii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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