- Family : ARACEAE
(Arum Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Araceae
- Basionym : Arum viviparum Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Caladium viviparum (Roxb.) G.Lodd.; Colocasia vivipara (Roxb.) Thwaites; Ditinnia rupicola A.Chev.; Remusatia formosana Hayata
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Remusatia vivipara (Roxb.) Schott
- Common name : Hitchhiker Elephant Ear
- Vernacular name :
- Mara kesu (Kannada)
- Sengarunaikizhangu (Tamil)
- Marachembu, Maratthaali (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : On Rotting wood and among rocks
- Comments / notes : Often seen on hills above 1300m, in shade, moist deciduous and Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Flower, Fruit : April-September
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Karnataka
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Salem district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China, Christmas Island, Comoros, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Sierra Leone, Socot
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China, Christmas Island, Comoros, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- 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
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 237-238
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Remusatia vivipara. Downloaded on 4 October 2024.
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