- Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
- Synonym(s) : Satyrium nepalense var. ciliatum (Lindl.) Hook.f.; Satyrium nepalense var. nepalense
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Satyrium nepalense D.Don
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Not common, on higher hills in moist soil.
- Key identification features : Terrestrial, leafy, erect herbs with tubers; Leaves fleshy, narrowly elliptic; Flowers in spike, pink or white, Lip broadly oblong.
- Flower, Fruit : September-January
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, T.P.Ramamoorthy; P.Taylor
- Collection Date : 04-12-1970, 19-08-1981
- Collection Nos : HFP 1170, KFP 14193
- Collection Locality : Genkalbetta, Hassan district; Near Gudlur, Nilgiri district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Pune district
- Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- 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.: 153-154
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Satyrium nepalense. Downloaded on 4 October 2024.
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