- Family : NELUMBONACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Nelumbonaceae
- Species : Nelumbo nucifera
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.
- Common name : Sacred Lotus
- Vernacular name : Kamala (San.); Kamal (Hin.); Kamala, Thavare (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : HFP 1831, HFP 2043
- Habit : Herb
- Comments : Rhizomes and nuts edible. Flowers are used for worship in temples.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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