• Family : BEGONIACEAE
  (Begonia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PATTHARCHATTA FAMILY (पत्थरचट्टा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BEGONIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Begonia canarana Miq.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Moist shady places among rock crevices in evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-October
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha, S.R.Ramesh & K.P.Sreenath
• Collection Nos : KFP 8845
• Collection Locality : Gurupur (Uttar Kannada)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi dist.; 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=Begonia canarana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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