Herbarium JCB

Canna indica L.

Family : CANNACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Cannaceae
Species : Canna indica
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Canna indica L.
Common name : Indian Shot, Indian Bread-Shot
Vernacular name : Kamakshee, Sarvajaya (San.); Sabbajaya (Hin.); Bale sugandhi, Kabale, Samudra bale (Kan.)
Collection Nos : CJS 13684
Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
Key identification features : A large herb with an underground spreading stem. Leaves are alternate, large, plantain leaf-like, elliptic with a sheath clasping the stem. Flowers are attractive on an erect terminal inflorescence. Fruit is 3 lobed, warty and dehiscent.
Habit : Shrub
Native : Central & South America
Comments : Cultivated in gardens.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Hanbal road (Hassan)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Mysore, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara