• 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) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Plains and cultivated fields
• Comments / notes : Often on plains in low-lying clayey soil, on moist ground by watercourses, irrigation canals, particular in harvested fields
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Gajapati district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Hygrophila balsamica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description