• Family : Araceae
  (ARUM FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Araceae
• Basionym : Arum tortuosum Wall.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Arisaema tortuosum (Wall.) Schott
• Common name : Whipcord Cobra Lily
• Vernacular name : Bagh Jandhra(Hindi); Sarpako Makai, Baanko, Beerabaanko(Nepali)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open forest stony slopes and shaded places in primary forest
• Key identification features : Leaves pedately compound. Spadix distinctive with a rather thick up-curved appendage gradually tapering to a long green or sometimes dark purple erect tail-like tip
• Native : Indian Subcontinent to S. Central China
• World Distribution : China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, West Himalaya
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 435; Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 294; Balakrishnan, N. P. (1983). Flora of Jowai Vol.2. Published BSI: 562
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Arisaema tortuosum. Downloaded on 29 November 2020.

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