Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop

 
  • 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
    • Haryana : Gurgaon district
    • 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 :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Drimia indica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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