Amorphophallus bulbifer (Roxb.) Blume

 
  • Family : ARACEAE
    (Arum Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Araceae
  • Basionym : Arum bulbiferum Roxb.
  • Synonym(s) : Conophallus bulbifer (Schott) Schott; Pythonium bulbiferum Schott; Amorphophallus aculatum Hook.f.; Amorphophallus bulbifer var. atroviridimaculata Engl.; Amorphophallus bulbifer var. marmoratus Engl.; Amorphophallus bulbifer var. tuberculiger (Schott) Engl.; Amorphophallus taccoides Hook.f.; Amorphophallus tuberculiger (Schott) Engl.; Arum punctatum Voigt; Arum punctulatum Zipp. ex Kunth; Arum spectabile Zipp. ex Kunth; Conophallus tuberculiger Schott
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Amorphophallus bulbifer (Roxb.) Blume
  • Vernacular name :
    • Kattuchena (Malayalam)
    • Dhar oal (Oria)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments / notes : Occasional along margins of forests, dry deciduous forests
  • Key identification features : Erect herb, tuber globose. Leaves 3-fid, sessile, apex acuminate-caudate
  • Flower, Fruit : April-July
  • Collector(s) Name : D.Nicolson, Cecil J. Saldanha, T.P.Ramamoorthy; T.P.Ramamoorthy
  • Collection Date : 19-06-1970, 06-06-1971
  • Collection Nos : 17102, HFP 1768
  • Collection Locality : Subramanya-Uppinangadi road, Dakshina Kannada disrict; Kenchankumri state forest, Hassan district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
    • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
    • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
    • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Koraput district
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Siang, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • Ravikumar & Balachandran-2014, Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(8): 6108–6121
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
    • Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Flora of Udupi
    • Manjunath et al., 2003 - Flora of Davanagere
    • 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 bulbifer. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.

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