- Family : LILIACEAE
(Lily Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Asparagaceae
- Basionym : Scilla indica Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Urginea indica (Roxb.) Kunth; Scilla coromandeliana Roxb.; Urginea coromandeliana Hook.f.; Urginea wightiana Hook.f.; Urginea govindappae A.Boraiah & Fathima; Indurgia govindappae (A.Boraiah & Fathima) Speta; Drimia nagarjunae (Hemadri & Swahari) Anand Kumar; Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri & Swahari
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop
- Common name : Indian squill
- Vernacular name :
- Vanapalandu (Sanskrit)
- Jangli-piaz (Marathi)
- Kanthanga, Kattulli, Vishamangi (Malayalam)
- Adavi ulligadda (Telugu)
- Bon piyaj (Assamese)
- Jongali piyaz (Bengali)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests and also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Rare. Open forests and grassy places
- Flower, Fruit : December-May
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district, Nellore district
- Telangana : Nizamabad district
- Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district, Bengaluru district, Bidar district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Idukki district, Alappuzha district
- Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Bolangir district, Kalhandi district, Boudh district, Nayagarh district, Angul district, Mayurbhanj district, Rayagada district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Delhi : Delhi
- Haryana : Gurgaon district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Native : Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan,
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam
- 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
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- 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
- Pullaiah, 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh, Vol. 3. pp. 990
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore Districts
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Maheshwari K.J (1963). Flora of Delhi: 337
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Drimia indica
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2025). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Drimia indica. Downloaded on 4 November 2025.
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