• 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 febrifugum Benth.
• Vernacular name : Bili agrada beru, Nela muchhala (Kannada); Nilamuchaala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent as an undergrowth in evergreen forests near water sources
• Key identification features : A small herb. Corolla pale greenish yellow or purplish
• Flower, Fruit : October-January
• Collection Nos : KFP 4946
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Bengaluru district (GKVK, Campus)
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district
• Endemism : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 febrifugum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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