• Family : ORCHIDACEAE
  (Orchid Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ORCHIDACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acanthephippium bicolor Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare along the fast flowing river banks in upper ghats; Often on hills above 1200m, on moist shola floor, in deep shade.
• Key identification features : Terrestrial Herb. Flowers yellow tipped or spotted with red.
• Flower, Fruit : March-January
• Collector(s) Name : D.H.Nicolson, T.P.Ramamoorthy & K.N.Gandhi
• Collection Nos : HFP 2877
• Collection Locality : Devalkere-Devarunde road (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district
• Native : Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Biodiversity Characterisation at LL in Eastern Ghats and East Coast using SRS & GIS; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acanthephippium bicolor. Downloaded on 5 May 2024.

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