- Family : BORAGINACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Boraginaceae
- Species : Cynoglossum zeylanicum
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cynoglossum zeylanicum (Vahl) Brand
- Common name : Ceylon Hound's Tongue
- Vernacular name : Lakshamana (San.); Amarada soppu (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : HFP 732, HFP 2111, CJS 9206, CJS 13870,
- Key identification features : An annual herb with simple, alternate leaves. Flowers are less than 1 cm across, arranged on forked, spreading inflorescence axis. Fruit is a quadruplet of small one-seeded nuts, which are covered with curved hook-like outgrowths.
- Habit : Herb
- Native : India, Sri Lanka.
- Comments : Common in open moist places. Found growing along roadsides.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada
- Floras referred : Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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