- Family : LILIACEAE
(Lily Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Asparagaceae
- Synonym(s) : Ophiopogon wallichianus var. pauciflorus Hook.f.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ophiopogon intermedius D.Don
- Common name : Himalayan Lily Turf, White mondo grass
- Vernacular name :
- Thalaivalka, Orukkupullu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Forests and shrubberies
- Comments / notes : Occasional on Hills above 1500m on shola floors
- Key identification features : Leaves tufted, linear. Perianth white, tinged with lilac lobes spreading
- Flower, Fruit : May-August
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha; S.R.Ramesh, B.R.Ramesh
- Collection Date : 6-10-1965, 17-07-1980
- Collection Nos : CS 10040, KFP 11757
- Collection Locality : Magadi estate, Sakleshpur, Hassan district; Talguppa-Jog, Shivamogga district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Theni district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Siang, Tirap, Lohit
- Meghalaya : West Jaintia Hills (Jowai) district
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- 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
- Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 Aug.
- Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 425
- Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 280
- Balakrishnan, N. P. (1983). Flora of Jowai Vol.2. Published BSI: 562
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 202
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ophiopogon intermedius. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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