• Family : ARACEAE
  (Arum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Amorphophallus commutatus var. anshiensis Punekar, Lakshmin. & Sivad.; Amorphophallus commutatus var. wayanadensis Sivad. & Jaleel
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Amorphophallus commutatus (Schott) Engl.
• Common name : Dragon Stalk Yam
• Vernacular name : Kattuchena (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Common in shaded places of evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-October
• Collection Nos : KFP 13151, KFP 8352
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of 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; Punekar, Lakshmin. & Sivad., FI. Anshi N.P., Western Ghats-Karnataka 514. 2011. (ARACEAE); Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book; 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=Amorphophallus commutatus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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