- 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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