Pecteilis gigantea (Sm.) Raf.

 
  • Family : ORCHIDACEAE
    (Orchid Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
  • Basionym : Orchis gigantea Sm.
  • Synonym(s) : Habenaria gigantea (Sm.) D.Don
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pecteilis gigantea (Sm.) Raf.
  • Common name : Lady Susan's Orchid, Giant Pecteilis, Butterfly Orchid
  • Vernacular name :
    • Waghchora (Marathi), Kalluchedi (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Open grassy places; 900 - 1200 m. altitude
  • Comments / notes : Open grassy places
  • Flower, Fruit : August-December
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Sundergarh district, Mayurbhanj district, Kandhamal district, Kalhandi district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Native : East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
  • 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
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 232
    • Kumar P. et. al., (2008). Orchidaceae, Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India. Check List 4(3): 304–323
    • Jalal J.S. and Jayanthi J., (2015)
    • AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE ORCHIDS OF WESTERN HIMALAYA, INDIA. LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7-50
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pecteilis gigantea. Downloaded on 11 November 2024.

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