jivaka :

Taxonomical Classification

Kingdom: Plantae - Plants
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Family: Orchidaceae

Allied species:

4 orchid species

VERNACULAR NAMES

Sanskrit: jivya,dirghayu,cirajivi
English: none (jeevak)
Hindi: jeevak
Telugu: jeevakamu
Marathi: विलायती गवत vilayati gavat , lasun-ghas, lujen
Tamil: jeevakam
Malayalam: jeevakam
Kannada: ಜೀವಕ Jivaka

Varities:

-In India, 19 species of Malaxis are distributed and six of them occur alone in Arunachal Pradesh. Some of the important Indian species are Malaxis acuminata, M. andamanica, M. cylindrostachya, M. khasiana, M. muscifera, M. rheedii and M. versicolor (Chowdhery, 1998). Only a few species of Malaxis are medicinally important

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