• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Gymnostachyum pubescens (Lam.) M.R.Almeida
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Locality : Adukkam, Kottayam District
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kottayam district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Arabia, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Gymnostachyum canescens. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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