Hypoxis aurea Lour.

 
  • Family : HYPOXIDACEAE
    (Lily Or African Potato Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KALI MUSLI FAMILY (काली मूसली फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Hypoxidaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Curculigo graminifolia Nimmo; Hypoxis frankquevillei Miq.; Hypoxis minor D.Don
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Hypoxis aurea Lour.
  • Common name : Golden Star Grass
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Open grasslands in the evergreen and deciduous forests
  • Comments / notes : Hills above 1000m, in shady locations
  • Flower, Fruit : March-August
  • Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
  • Collection Date : 03/09/1969
  • Collection Nos : 14779
  • Collection Locality : Shiradi Ghat, Hassan district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
    • Karnataka : Hassan district
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district
    • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Buldhana district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Ganjam district, Keonjhar district, Kalhandi district
    • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • 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
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 199
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hypoxis aurea. Downloaded on 4 December 2024.

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