- Family : ARACEAE
(Arum Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Araceae
- Synonym(s) : Conophallus commutatus Schott
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Amorphophallus commutatus (Schott) Engl.
- Common name : Dragon Stalk Yam
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Common in shaded places of evergreen forests
- Flower, Fruit : May-October
- Collector(s) Name : S.R.Ramesh, S.Udaya Kumar; Cecil J. Saldanha, B.R.Ramesh
- Collection Date : 26-06-1981, 14-07-1979
- Collection Nos : KFP 15151, KFP 8352
- Collection Locality : Planted at St. Joseph's college; Kodlimali State forest, Dakshina Kannada district
- 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
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Tirap
- Native : India
- Exotic/Native : Native
- 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.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 229
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Amorphophallus commutatus. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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