• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Coelogyne glandulosa Lindl.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Coelogyne nervosa A.Rich.
• Common name : The Nerved Coelogyne
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands, evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Epiphytic
• Key identification features : Flowers white with yellow tinge on the lower lip.
• Flower, Fruit : June-July
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Locality : Kurisumala, Kottayam District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kottayam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• 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=Coelogyne nervosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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