- Family : ARACEAE
(Arum Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Araceae
- Basionym : Arum tortuosum Wall.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Arisaema tortuosum (Wall.) Schott
- Common name : Whipcord Cobra Lily
- Vernacular name :
- Sardacha-jad (Marathi)
- Whipcord Cobra Lily, Jack in the pulpit (Malayalam)
- Kushnopeni, Bhaiabimula (Oria)
- Pamukanda (Telugu)
- Bagh Jandhra(Hindi)
- Sarpako Makai, Baanko, Beerabaanko(Nepali)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Deciduous forests, Open forest stony slopes and shaded places in primary forest, Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional in hills under shade from 800m onwards
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy; Cecil J. Saldanha; B.R.Ramesh, Shivaprakash; T.P.Ramamoorthy; Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 31-10-2015, 05-10-1979, 17-07-1981, 06-07-1971, 20-08-1969
- Collection Nos : HJCB 0389, KFP 9588, KFP 13198, HFP 1861, CS 14520
- Collection Locality : Swamimalai hills, Tamil Nadu; Chikkamagaluru-Mudigere road, Chikkamagaluru district; Nagunda quarry, Uttara Kannada district; Bagi, Hassan district; Arkalgud, Hassan district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Visakhapatnam district, East Godavari district, Vizianagaram district
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : Kalahandi district, Mayurbhanj district, Bargarh district, Koraput district
- Tamil Nadu : Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Melagiri hills (Dharmapuri district), Chitteri Hills, Yelegiri Hills (Vellore district)
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Valley of Flowers
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Kinnaur district, Shimla district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Subansiri, Tawang, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Naidu, M.T., O.A. Kumar & M. Venkaiah 2015. Vascular Plant diversity in the sacred grove of Modapalli in Visakapanam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. JoTT 7 (10): 7683-7690
- Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 951
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 435
- Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 294
- Balakrishnan, N. P. (1983). Flora of Jowai Vol.2. Published BSI: 562
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 233-234
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Arisaema tortuosum
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Arisaema tortuosum. Downloaded on 20 February 2026.
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