Rotula aquatica Lour.

 
  • Family : BORAGINACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Boraginaceae
  • Species : Rotula aquatica
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rotula aquatica Lour.
  • Vernacular name : Pashanbheda (San.); Pashanabheda (Kan.)
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1043, CJS 15414, CS 750-A
  • Key identification features : Trailing shrubs with flexuous branches. Leaves less than a cm long, oblong-oblanceolate, apiculate. Flowers pink to purple. Drupe globose tipped with a persistent style.
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Comments : Common on the banks and beds of rivers and streams among rocks
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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