• 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) : Rotula aquatica Lour.
• Vernacular name : Pashanabheda (Kannada); Jamchi, Jamoch (Oria); Pashanbheda (Sanskrit); Kallurvanchi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Rocky riverbeds
• Flower, Fruit : October-June
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district, Angul district, Koraput district, Kalhandi district, Kandhamal district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Africa, Brazil
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Otissa 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; 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.
• 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=Rotula aquatica. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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