- Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Plantaginaceae
- Species : Bacopa monnieri
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst.
- Common name : Memory plant, Thyme-leaved grateola
- Vernacular name : Brahmi (San.); Brahmi (Hin.); Neera-braahmi (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : HFP 1396, CJS 13214
- Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
- Key identification features : A succulent creeping herb that roots at nodes. Leaves are simple, sessile, opposite and fleshy. Flowers are solitary, axillary, pedicelled and about 8 mm across. Fruit is a several-seeded capsule.
- Habit : Herb
- Native : India, Nepal
- Comments : Grows in moist places as dense mats. Plant is highly medicinal, used for improving the memory. Often confused with Centella asiatica for which the local name(Brahmi) is the same.
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Collection Locality : Belvathally State forest ( Hassan)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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