• 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 polyanthum Wight
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional in forests of Western Ghats
• Key identification features : Scapigerous herbs. Flowers pink, on long terminal inflorescence.
• Flower, Fruit : December-February
• Collection Nos : KFP 5341
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Bengaluru district (GKVK, Campus)
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kollam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kottayam district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
• 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 polyanthum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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