• 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) : Diplocentrum recurvum Lindl.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Scarce on trees; Often on hills above 1200m,as an epiphyte.
• Flower, Fruit : May-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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.
• 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=Diplocentrum recurvum. Downloaded on 10 May 2024.

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