• Family : BORAGINACEAE
  (Forget-Me-Not Or Borage Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LASORA FAMILY (लसोड़ा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BORAGINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Heliotropium zeylanicum (Burm.f.) Lam.
• Vernacular name : Thelipoondu (Tamil)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional weed in waste lands and foot hills
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Krishna district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Tumakuru district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Pakistan, India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Heliotropium subulatum. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

Botanical Description